Things To Do With the New Inventory Page by Eike Meier

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I've seen a lot of complains in the forum, groups and from single people about the new inventory page, and now that I have it and had some time to play with it, I'd like to show you some things you can do with it.

First thing, I heard people complaining about flash. I cannot see any flash on the inventory. Just because it looks good does not mean it uses flash.

Next thing I heard is: "Where can I see my combined stats?"

Maybe its time to get rid of this "combined attack and defence" myth if even Zynga does not mention it in their new inventory pages. In the tournament they're talking about combined skills, not loot items.

Now, let us see what nice things we can do with the inventory.

Want to know what items you are not using and you can give away? Click Filter and then "Items I Own" and "Inactive".

Then sort by attack or defense, then giftable. You'll have a nice list of items to give away.

Unfortunately, there are items missing. I have 189 Ripper Assault Rifle, where only one of them is used. So they show up as active (green dot) and are missing in the list. That would be something to improve, Zynga.

(Btw., I should consider giving some of my unused items to Pete for the next Giving-It-All-Away-contest!)

Another interesting thing is, what are the best items that I do not have? Easy peasy... select "Items I Don't Own", then sort by attack or defense.

You see, apart from the Loyality items and the Berzerker, I am pretty complete in the upper class.

Another thing to improve for Zynga is to remove the bronze, silver and gold items from the list once you have the ruby items. But on the other hand, maybe you'd like to know the stats of the items also.

Another nice one: Click on "Summary", and you'll see a diagram of your item qualities. I'll say a word to these qualities later, but now, click on "See items". You'll notice, Zynga sets the needed filters automatically for you to see the items you use. What a service!

So, these are the nice parts. Once again, Zynga learned from the things the bookmarklets already could do and put that into the game. I don't see that as bad, for me it's the best way to find out what the community needs. And remember when they changed the homepage, they listened to our complains and changed it. So that brings me to the, at least in my opinion, downsides of the new inventory page.

What I am really much missing is an overview list of all my items like the old one was. Just to copy them to Excel for my own analysis, to search for an item, or to just see all the great stuff you have. Now I'd have to click through 155 pages of items. Not the best.

Another thing that is definately needed is a search function. Give me a text box where I put part of the name and put in a filter to show the fitting items. That would be really nice.

Also the item classes are a bit confusing. Items with 60+ stats are just common while items with 40 are rare? Strange. This just look like the marketing department came and said: "We need item classes like in WOW" and then they had to think of something. Well, guess we'll have to live with that.

So, as usual and as Jennifer also said in the last podcast: We'll get used to it, like we got used to everything else. Every technical progress had people that were against it. ;-)

Article written by Eike, Great fan of the MW Loot Lady Blog and The Informant Podcast All material is protected by copyright law