I've seen a couple of threads suggesting similar things to this already, but they were all kind of old so I thought I'd start up the conversation again. Not to mention, not a single "Baldwin" or "Alchemy" thread is listed on the Suggestion Compilation form post. TOTALLY SUBTLE *HINT HINT, NUDGE NUDGE*. (disclaimer, I'm being facetious here)
ON TO SERIOUSNESS. Baldwin's Brew is probably my favorite part of Flight Rising. You can bet I'm checking in every half hour to throw something in the pot, and if I'm not brewing something, then I may as well be wasting my time. Now, keeping up with brewing is hard for me at work because I can't constantly be on my phone, so my solution is to transmute something that takes 8 to 10 hours to complete at the beginning of my day and collect it at the end so I don't have to even think about looking at the site. The only problem is... it's kinda hard to find these items in all of Baldwin's pages.
Baldwin currently has two sorting methods; Name and Level. Both of these are useless to me. I don't memorize the level or the name of the items I most frequently brew, I just look for the pictures, but they constantly get rearranged whenever new items or added (or when holiday items are thrown in each month) which is why I would love to see two more options added to this sort list; EXP and Time.
An EXP sorting option would be useful for anyone trying to fill their experience bar as fast as possible, or whenever the level cap is raised, by sorting all the lowest EXP items to the front and the highest to the back. Time would sort all the items from shortest brewing times to the front and longest brewing times to the back, which would do wonders for anyone like me trying to find an item to brew that takes a few hours without flipping back and fourth through all the current pages.
Heck, maybe we could even have a Reverse Sort option for these two, going from Highest to Lowest for EXP and Longest to Shortest for Time (you know, just in case you felt like going crazy on your Saturday night). We could even throw in a "Z to A" sort for the current "Name" option! (WOAH, SOMEBODY STOP THIS MAD WOMAN)
And of course, we can't forget a filter option. In all honesty I was really surprised this wasn't a default option when Baldwin first came out, but back then it wasn't to much of a hassle when there was less than five pages of brewable content. But now as more items and pages are added to Baldwin's brew, I can see this becoming a growing issue. Maybe users want to see ONLY the other transmutation items they could alchemize because they're trying to get all the components necessary for brewing something bigger, or maybe someone who's working on their beastiary wants to see ONLY the familiars Baldwin has to offer. Baldwin allows you to brew Food, Familiars, Apparel, Coliseum Stones, Transmutation Materials, and so much more, and I think having a filter system for all of them like a beautiful new auction house has would work wonders.
Filter and Sort should be two separate things, though, allowing users to narrow down their search parameters as much as possible like we can in the auction house. Lastly, there are a dozen other little nitpicky things I wish I could tweak about Baldwin's that I'd love to see implemented in the future, (for example, faded pictures of items you CAN'T brew because you don't have all the necessary materials yet) but I think this is a more important starting point for any improvements to be made.
TL;DR:
Thoughts?
ON TO SERIOUSNESS. Baldwin's Brew is probably my favorite part of Flight Rising. You can bet I'm checking in every half hour to throw something in the pot, and if I'm not brewing something, then I may as well be wasting my time. Now, keeping up with brewing is hard for me at work because I can't constantly be on my phone, so my solution is to transmute something that takes 8 to 10 hours to complete at the beginning of my day and collect it at the end so I don't have to even think about looking at the site. The only problem is... it's kinda hard to find these items in all of Baldwin's pages.
Baldwin currently has two sorting methods; Name and Level. Both of these are useless to me. I don't memorize the level or the name of the items I most frequently brew, I just look for the pictures, but they constantly get rearranged whenever new items or added (or when holiday items are thrown in each month) which is why I would love to see two more options added to this sort list; EXP and Time.
An EXP sorting option would be useful for anyone trying to fill their experience bar as fast as possible, or whenever the level cap is raised, by sorting all the lowest EXP items to the front and the highest to the back. Time would sort all the items from shortest brewing times to the front and longest brewing times to the back, which would do wonders for anyone like me trying to find an item to brew that takes a few hours without flipping back and fourth through all the current pages.
Heck, maybe we could even have a Reverse Sort option for these two, going from Highest to Lowest for EXP and Longest to Shortest for Time (you know, just in case you felt like going crazy on your Saturday night). We could even throw in a "Z to A" sort for the current "Name" option! (WOAH, SOMEBODY STOP THIS MAD WOMAN)
And of course, we can't forget a filter option. In all honesty I was really surprised this wasn't a default option when Baldwin first came out, but back then it wasn't to much of a hassle when there was less than five pages of brewable content. But now as more items and pages are added to Baldwin's brew, I can see this becoming a growing issue. Maybe users want to see ONLY the other transmutation items they could alchemize because they're trying to get all the components necessary for brewing something bigger, or maybe someone who's working on their beastiary wants to see ONLY the familiars Baldwin has to offer. Baldwin allows you to brew Food, Familiars, Apparel, Coliseum Stones, Transmutation Materials, and so much more, and I think having a filter system for all of them like a beautiful new auction house has would work wonders.
Filter and Sort should be two separate things, though, allowing users to narrow down their search parameters as much as possible like we can in the auction house. Lastly, there are a dozen other little nitpicky things I wish I could tweak about Baldwin's that I'd love to see implemented in the future, (for example, faded pictures of items you CAN'T brew because you don't have all the necessary materials yet) but I think this is a more important starting point for any improvements to be made.
TL;DR:
- Add A "Time" and "EXP" option to the current sort list, sorting all items from shortest(least) to longest(most) brew time(experience), and/or vice versa.
- Add a filter allowing us to only show a specific Item Category (i.e. an option that allows us to ONLY look at familiars, OR materials, OR Apparel, etc.)
Thoughts?
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