[2020] Item lock...no accidental scrapping

Originally posted by Someguyinhere:

Originally posted by WAP: Pls dear god no!
That will instantly double your time to scrap while looting , as you need to click twice.
Rather have the ability to lock/favorite an item, stack or slot.

Yeah hell, that extra five ms to click yes will sure slow down your game.

Well, there's probably around 100~ lootable items in the average building, And I'd imagine it would take quite a lot more than 5ms to click yes- Human reaction speed isn't that fast. Try closer to 250-300ms. Even pro starcraft players are between 175-225ms reaction times. Even if you know it's coming and try to time it you'll still be around 100 if you time it well. The average gamer clocks in around 215-240ms.

So, 100 lootable objects, averaging 1-2 items each, say you want to scrap half for simplicity, You're looking at 100x100=10,000ms at absolute best, But much more likely around 21,500ms on average.

That's not a whole lot, really....21.5 seconds. But that's per 100 objects scrapped. When you scrap thousands over the course of the game, suddenly you're wasting tens of minutes of your time just moving to a confirmation prompt. And thats assuming your mouse is always in exactly the right place for you to perfectly click, Which it often won't be.

No thanks. I'll stick with sorting my inventory and not putting things i dont want to scrap near things i want to scrap.

Originally posted by BloodyRain2k:

Originally posted by Shurenai: And thats assuming your mouse is always in exactly the right place for you to perfectly click, Which it often won't be.

Well, the confirmation could be designed so it can also be used with a key?
Preferably a different one than the scrapping one.

Also: when I'm scrapping an item that is unmodded but has dye in it I want the dye OR at least what I would get from scrapping the dye.
Currently it just gets killed for nothing >_<

When you're rapidly scrapping a dozen things and you aren't paying attention, the confirmation is meant to slow you down so you look at what you're scrapping and realize 'oh, i shouldnt scrap that'.

Combine it with a key and the player will just get into the same kind of methodical mind numbing 'scrap key, confirm key, scrap key, confirm key' that currently has them scrapping their items as is. It takes that momentary pause away and replaces it with basically pressing both keys at the same time instead of just pressing the scrap key.

Human autopilot is real, And it is unforgiving. :P