Artisan Archive

While crafting, it seems that about 30% of my time is spent waiting for modal 'status' windows to go away. For instance, I add a resource to Draft Schematic Slots portion of crafting tool and I get an 'analyzing the item' modal dialog. While this is up, I can do nothing since the entire screen is greyed out.

I don't mind the wait. What I do mind is that completely unrelated game systems are disabled, in particular chat. As an artisan I depend on chat to communicate with customers and to detect when a customer is in need of a service that I can provide.


Compounding the annoyance is the constant flicker of the screen as it bounces between grayed out and normal. This is hard on the eyes and makes it particularly difficult to follow chat.


Proposed solution: When a crafting tool window is open and you do something like add a resource, disable the crafting tool window and only the crafting tool window rather than the entire screen.


Thanks,
-Shinjin, Droid Engineer on Kettemoor

Excellent suggestion. I agree. Allowing some "construction time" between crafting stages is fine. But at least let us chat and interact. This problem is particularly severe in laggy areas. I won't even craft in areas that have a lot of players because of the excessive 'gray screen' time.

I have had people talk to me as I'm crafting, I try to get out of the "grey zone" and them they are gone. The grey zone is not real long if by yourself. But when around people not knowing you are crafting it's just long enough for them to take off or ask "Hello, are to there?".

I agree completely.

Yeah, you know, this is a big annoyance. I don't know why it hasn't been mentioned before...hmmmm...

/agree

It just struck me last night how incredibly silly this is. What is the purpose? Is it to make sure we are disabled while crafting so we can't respond to threats in a timely fashion? Something else?

I completely agree! I need to be able to chat when I craft! Added to my list. Thanks for bringing this up!!