The facts:
- There are 80+ pages of Bestiary right now.
- There is no way to see which familiars you do not own, besides scrolling through all 80 pages.
- There is no way of seeing which familiars need to be bonded with, besides scrolling through all 80 pages.
- There is no way of determining the source of any familiar directly through the Bestiary.
- There is no way of going directly to a specific familiar, or even to the right place in the alphabet to find them.
The conclusion:
There are a lot more things that could be said of the limitations of the Bestiary right now. These are just some of the ones that seemed most prevalent to me. While collecting familiars is not a focus of this site, it is still a feature of it, and the current Bestiary is prohibitive to that goal.
The proposal:
Below I've included some concept mock-ups, with the intention of getting ideas moving. These are not necessarily perfect, and I don't guarantee that they fit the needs of the playerbase. The admins are the only ones who can really make that call. But I did want to get some ideas flowing.
Filtering
We already have some conceptually good filters in the Auction House, a concept that could be leveraged to update the Bestiary.
There are many other filters that could be added, I chose these three for the sake of demonstration.
Sources could be broken down for more flexibility, or condensed, for the sake of brevity. I've included a more verbose source in my familiar listing below.
Leveraging the multiple choice filters for the Bestiary would provide an extra level of functionality.
Familiar Listings
I was conflicted on what to propose for the actual listings themselves. As they are, they're a bit bulky, but it's also nice seeing them all listed out. So while I think the above filter options could work (ish) with the current listing layout, I also mocked up a potential streamlined layout as well.
The hover-over on the icon to go with the above listing.
Alternative idea for listings, wider than the current ones to accommodate longer descriptions (Looking at you, Acid-Tongue Serpenta, Conjoined Skink, and Rosaline Strangler, just to name a few.)
Alternative to the alternative, with the description contained in a hover menu.
Other Notes
I have elected not to propose (or anti-propose?) a "Bond All" feature. That is another discussion that has been discussed to death, and the focus here is viewing familiars rather than interacting with them.
I did not include a "Hide KS Familiars" option, but this could be covered by or rolled up into the filters.
The idea to include a source came from the number of ways in which players have had to manually keep track of this for themselves. It is, to me, the lowest on the priority list, but would be nice.
Anyway thanks for reading this thread that got way too long!
- There are 80+ pages of Bestiary right now.
- There is no way to see which familiars you do not own, besides scrolling through all 80 pages.
- There is no way of seeing which familiars need to be bonded with, besides scrolling through all 80 pages.
- There is no way of determining the source of any familiar directly through the Bestiary.
- There is no way of going directly to a specific familiar, or even to the right place in the alphabet to find them.
The conclusion:
There are a lot more things that could be said of the limitations of the Bestiary right now. These are just some of the ones that seemed most prevalent to me. While collecting familiars is not a focus of this site, it is still a feature of it, and the current Bestiary is prohibitive to that goal.
The proposal:
Below I've included some concept mock-ups, with the intention of getting ideas moving. These are not necessarily perfect, and I don't guarantee that they fit the needs of the playerbase. The admins are the only ones who can really make that call. But I did want to get some ideas flowing.
Filtering
We already have some conceptually good filters in the Auction House, a concept that could be leveraged to update the Bestiary.
There are many other filters that could be added, I chose these three for the sake of demonstration.
Sources could be broken down for more flexibility, or condensed, for the sake of brevity. I've included a more verbose source in my familiar listing below.
Leveraging the multiple choice filters for the Bestiary would provide an extra level of functionality.
Familiar Listings
I was conflicted on what to propose for the actual listings themselves. As they are, they're a bit bulky, but it's also nice seeing them all listed out. So while I think the above filter options could work (ish) with the current listing layout, I also mocked up a potential streamlined layout as well.
The hover-over on the icon to go with the above listing.
Alternative idea for listings, wider than the current ones to accommodate longer descriptions (Looking at you, Acid-Tongue Serpenta, Conjoined Skink, and Rosaline Strangler, just to name a few.)
Alternative to the alternative, with the description contained in a hover menu.
Other Notes
I have elected not to propose (or anti-propose?) a "Bond All" feature. That is another discussion that has been discussed to death, and the focus here is viewing familiars rather than interacting with them.
I did not include a "Hide KS Familiars" option, but this could be covered by or rolled up into the filters.
The idea to include a source came from the number of ways in which players have had to manually keep track of this for themselves. It is, to me, the lowest on the priority list, but would be nice.
Anyway thanks for reading this thread that got way too long!
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