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MasterSeedy's avatar
MasterSeedy
Rising Ace
9 days ago

Shard Shop Clutter

Why is my shard shop suddenly cluttered with useless things right at the top that I now have to scroll past? 

Honestly, CG just said a few months ago that they're aware that the Events space was cluttered with useless, locked events and were working on it. But instead of getting that fixed, they've now jammed the Shard Shop full of useless, locked items that I couldn't buy even if I was silly enough to want to? 

Weirdly, Darth Vader is locked but Grievous isn't. I have both of them at r7+. I can't imagine why I should be banned from buying DV shards with shard shop currency to turn them into less shard shop currency without also banning me from buying Grievous shards. 

There's a simple fix for this bit of mischief: all locked items in all stores are immediately shifted to the bottom. BOOM. 

Meanwhile, CG also said that they were going to work on the Guild/Raid tokens store because there are simply way too many things available for there and it's a nightmare of inconvenient scrolling. Nothing done there either, and it's been a couple years now. 

Seriously, CG, you have problems with your UI. Locked items shouldn't be on the top row, locked events shouldn't appear at all (or, worst case, should be shifted far-right), other events should be listed first by whether they are active, with the actives sorted by the time remaining before they become unavailable, then the inactive should be sorted by how soon they become available, and shipment stores that use multiple currencies should allow a player to tap any currency listed at the top to restrict the store's display to show only those items available for a particular currency. 

Please, I know that I'm not competent to produce the beautiful graphics that y'all do, but I have programmed UIs before (many years ago) and it's not that hard to think like your game's players. This clutter has to stop. 

  • Rhombi's avatar
    Rhombi
    New Traveler
    9 days ago

    Remember when they changed the Featured Shipments? The Credit purchases used to always be on top, then they sneakily dropped them down and put the crystal purchases on top. I remember a couple of people blindly clicking those and spending crystals instead of - what they thought were - credits. Good stuff. 

    • MasterSeedy's avatar
      MasterSeedy
      Rising Ace
      8 days ago

      I did that. I didn't ask for my crystals back or anything. But it did drive home to me how important UI design is, and how much more important redesigns are -- if you're not making things significantly better, then any minor flaws of the existing system might actually be more tolerable than asking people to go through the process of getting used to a new system that also has minor flaws. 

  • 1605Michael's avatar
    1605Michael
    Seasoned Novice
    9 days ago

    I believe the answer is "not everything is about you". The new shards help newer players speed up their capital ships and DV, and the extra LS/DS currency helps rush GL progression.

    • poodleboots47's avatar
      poodleboots47
      Rising Traveler
      9 days ago

       don't think there is any complaint about having more stuff available it would be nice if they could do it in a sane way  

    • MasterSeedy's avatar
      MasterSeedy
      Rising Ace
      9 days ago

      You'll have to reread what I said. It had nothing to do with complaining that new shards are available to newer players, etc. 

      This is a UI complaint. 

      • Tenebrae-3626's avatar
        Tenebrae-3626
        Seasoned Veteran
        9 days ago

        Exactly. I have nothing against the shards being available for newer players or ones that don't yet have the ship at 7 stars. What annoys me is that once you do have them at 7 stars, the shards just stay there, completely locked. Meanwhile the stuff you actually need and can actually buy are placed lower. It's just like the Marquee reruns, If you already have the character unlocked, the event is nothing but a waste of space and unnecessary scrolling.

        On the bright side at least, they're offering GL tickets, so I guess less node farming for Ahsoka.

  • lordzhedd's avatar
    lordzhedd
    Seasoned Hotshot
    9 days ago

    I feel like I've gotten accustomed to the layout of the raid store at this point - at least most of the character shards are at the bottom - that saves me a ton of scrolling. I think if maybe the swapped the location of the Raid2 items and the Raid 3 items (since Raid3 spends way faster than Raid2 in my experience) that might be the only update there that would provide significant benefit. I wouldn't want them to remove things from the shop though - as much as is in there already there's still times when I need something and have to wait several refreshes to see it come back around. 

    The change to the shard shop is annoying - I'm used to going to a specific part of the screen to find the items I'm looking for - and previously they were all on the same row making it even easier. Now the 360 cost items are spread across two rows, which is annoying, but I'm sure I'll adapt. Shards, GL tickets, and blueprints could definitely be sunk to the bottom though - I'm long past needing those shards or blueprints and there's maybe once a year at most that I'll even consider buying the GL tickets at this point. Why fill the top with things most players will never need again? 

    I'd really love for them to right-shift the events that I can't take part in though. Proving grounds, the fleet mastery items that I'm now locked out of, events that I've completed that can't be refreshed - moving all that stuff to the end of the line would reduce clutter there considerably.

    I agree with most of your points though Seedy, and I second the idea that devs should try to think like their players. Really, I think that's ultimately a function of the QA team but maybe the QA team is overburdened as it is. All signs have pointed to that truth for years now. (yeah, yeah, I know... "hahaha you think they have QA," dear forumer, please don't respond with that...)

    • lordzhedd's avatar
      lordzhedd
      Seasoned Hotshot
      9 days ago

      You actually took the time and energy to make this post.

      How profoundly silly.

  • fathertaylor2001's avatar
    fathertaylor2001
    Rising Novice
    8 days ago

    Good points all around. 

    Personally I’d like to see the Marques go to their own event tab. That would remove a lot of clutter. 

    Sorting the events by putting the ones I can get rewards from up front would also be nice. 

    Also there had been talk when GCs came out that they might go to the same node as Conquest and Galactic War. That would be nice to see. It’s not really an event if there’s one (sometimes two) on the tab every day of the year.

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