Hurry up with this. Top priority update. Single stack items are an enormous pain to use/swap/trade/sell. Even badges when you don't want a nice number of them you just end up with broken stacks that no one will take. So annoying that all the most important feedback is just ignored constantly
Well, I don't speak German much at all but, as far as I can gather from using Google Translate on this (Q&A from Gamescom in August), stacking stuff in star menu causes a great deal of load on the server and they are working on an optimal solution to the problem.
I don't know about anyone else but, after the past week or so, I am all in favour of BB not making any change that might increase lag any further.
Yeah I don't normally swap buffs because of the horrible star menu, server lag etc. but I did now during event and what a click fest it is. Finding pumpkin stack sometimes took some time too. Dragging with scroll bar is slow too, its like 'where's waldo'
Here is a combined shot of my menu near the end of event (warning very large big for some browsers to handle)
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That just shows some incompetence or the will to do mid type solutions for end users. They don't need to stack them at server if its that bad there. They can just stack same type items to one in the UI visible to us. Each item in star menu has unique id that's passed to server when used so they could just put all same type items to one icon with a counter and associate array of IDs to that stack and the use next id per use.
Feels same kind of lame stuff like the barracks/prov house click fest that has been hot topic for like 2 years which could be easily (temporary) resolved by repeating the server command. Set scrollbar to 100? divide that by 25 and you send 4 commands. Nothing needs to be changed server side. Then if they say it produces lag... well players already repeat the add event anyways so no difference there if its manually done by player or repeated by game with small delays.
Last edited by Mannerheim; 04.11.14 at 14:46.
im not entirely sure they would understand the stuff you just wrote even if it got to them somehow