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AUTOLOOT: HOW does it WORK

Discussion in 'Dungeons of Dredmor General' started by rykerr, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. rykerr

    rykerr Member

    Maybe I'm doing something wrong. When I press escape and click "Autoloot Options" by default everything's greyed out, so I click on everything. Now everything is bright. Yet when I walk on things, they aren't autolooting. Only money is. So I unclick everything, and it's grey again. I walk on things, they aren't autolooting. Thinking maybe I misunderstood autoloot, I brighten everything and simply click on the item. It goes into my hand like normal, waiting to be placed in my inventory. So I UNclick everything again, and click on the item, and once again, it's waiting to be placed in my inventory.

    I looked for a thread about this and apparently it's just me. Am I not understanding how it works? Is it a bug? Who's on first?
     
  2. Lokloklok

    Lokloklok Member

    Doesn't work for me either.
     
  3. kbe

    kbe Member

    There's an auto loot button you have to hit bottom left hand corner of the UI before those options even work.
     
  4. dE

    dE Member

    Color me stupid, I too missed the button :D
    Thanks kbe.
     
  5. rykerr

    rykerr Member

    D'oh. ;/ THANK YOU!
     
  6. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    We will make the button larger.
     
  7. pvh

    pvh Member

    Hi Nicholas, instead of just making the button larger, there's probably a few ways to improve discoverability. The lowest-engineering-requirement solution would probably be to just add a tip to the auto-loot selection window which said something like: "These options affect the auto-loot setting (bottom right)."

    As the features stands today, I had no inkling I would have to go looking for an auto-loot setting in the first place (particularly since gold auto-loot seems to always be on!)
     
  8. 123stw

    123stw Member

    Why not just start with default autoloot on, but all items off? Personally I don't think an extra button to trigger is even necessary that way.