UI Wishlist

Just a few improvements I'd really like to see in the user interface:

• Custom chat channels
• Linkable items in chat
• Tab-complete for / commands
• Keep chat windows open when in NPC conversation
• Permit group chat while dead*

• Independent camera control while moving
• Finer camera scrolling

• Alternate keybind option for double-tap run (allow keybind for press and hold)
• Alternate keybind option for double-tap dodge (e.g. Shift+direction)
• Allow rebinding of mouse buttons

• Sortable and searchable recipe book
• Show how many units a recipe creates
  
• Show features of crafted item in recipe book (e.g. food buffs, bonuses, etc.)
• Option to view complete raw materials list for a recipe
• If recipe can't be crafted because craftable ingredients are missing, flag whether those ingredients are currently craftable with current inventory & recipes known

• Confirmation popup for "take all" if > 10 items

• Data top bar similar in design to /debug with:
  • Adventure XP
  • Craft XP
  • Map Coords (Available with /loctrack ; thanks Lained!)
  • FPS (already shown on existing /debug; thanks Alley Oop!)
    
  • Latency
  • Encumbrance
  • Realtime Clock
  • more?

• Different color health bar for allies and hostiles

• Font choice and font scale options for books.

* If there's a "game reason" this isn't possible, it's a bad reason, because in practice it only penalizes ad hoc groups that aren't using Discord.

 

/loctrack

 

Nice! The font size is way bigger than it needs to be, but much better than nothing!

Cool. One down, 24 to go.

 

/debug

 

Excellent! A top bar like /debug is exactly what I want, svelte and unobtrusive, but also displaying other useful game data (along with FPS).

And with /debug running I can confirm that my FPS falls dramatically as soon as I enter the inn where I live. I get about 40-60 in Novia and adventure zones, 30s in the POT where I live, and under 20 in the stairwell leading up to my room. But the current R51 release is a HUGE performance improvement over the past, when I was crashing like a drunkard into the walls in what felt like a 1 frame per second slideshow on those stairs.