Trades need more item slots
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Suggestion Title: Trades Need More Item Slots
Suggestion Summary: As of the moment, trades only have a maximum of 5 slots, I believe bumping it up to at least 10, or removing the maximum altogether would be a good idea
Positive points:
1. Lots of people trade more than 5 items at a time, so much so that it becomes a habit to trade the rest as gifts
2. Running a trade shop, would be infinite times easier
Negative points:
1. Although there are things such as boxboxes and medium/large gems for compact storage, there are other items like summons and almost every other item doesn't have any way to compact them.
Reason For Consideration: I think every trade shop owner would enjoy this one, and trades haven't been changed in years from what I have heard
All those code-related "negatives" even though I specifically ask not to use that as a negative (if something is worth doing, I don't care how hard it is to code, I'll do it!)
And not one single mention of game balance. Why do you think we have Box Boxes, Medium and Large Gems, and so on, all of which cost a small amount of value to get an easier time trading?
Changed it, thanks ^_^
Part of me feels this could be useful because some of the items commonly being traded cannot be compacted. Though indeed, game balance is also a concern.
Currently I can only think of boxes and gems as compactable goods - I may be missing others, but I'm pretty sure most other items miss out on this benefit of being compressed into an easy to trade item (even at a price) and I can imagine there to be a scenario where, for instance, someone is trying to trade for 200 Origin Sashes. At 5 items maximum, that's 40 trades... You could attach one more item to the Pokemon itself, but that's not very convenient afterwards.
Maybe instead of increasing slots, what about a feature similar to boxes where you can stack multiple items in one slot at a price? I'd imagine this would have to be done in a way that doesn't render the big boxes and gems obsolete, while still being reasonable. Perhaps you could get a container for trading, or otherwise have a representation of multiple of the same item without having to create actual items for this purpose (e.g. you put 10 Origin sashes in one slot and they show a different sprite and tooltip, but the change is merely visual and doesn't mean that's an actual item, it just means there's more than 1 Origin Sash in that slot).
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Honestly your suggestion is much better than mine lol
QUOTE originally posted by Eggy
Maybe instead of increasing slots, what about a feature similar to boxes where you can stack multiple items in one slot at a price
Items do not have the capability of storing additional data. I would need to add an entirely separate "backpack" item for every single possible item in the game. I'm not doing that XD
Doesn’t necessarily have to be an actual item that holds other items, would it not be possible to make it a consumable that merely adds more item slots to the trade screen for that specific trade?
QUOTE originally posted by Niet
Items do not have the capability of storing additional data. I would need to add an entirely separate "backpack" item for every single possible item in the game. I'm not doing that XD
QUOTE originally posted by iOlrickx
Doesn’t necessarily have to be an actual item that holds other items, would it not be possible to make it a consumable that merely adds more item slots to the trade screen for that specific trade?
Trades don't support that either without a significant rewrite. Like the one I proposed many years ago but the community rejected ;)
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