UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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SignedName
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UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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See title. For example, Desecrate when no corpses are present, Fly while indoors, etc.
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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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Agreed.
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NearNihil
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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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This already confuses me when it happens to spells. What's wrong with the buttons being disabled?
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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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It is oftentimes difficult to tell the difference between active and disabled buttons. At least for me.

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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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I agree with NearNihil.

Couldn't this be something we can toggle on/off in character settings?
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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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The underlying reason why this feature was introduced was that laptop/desktop users pre-2018 constantly experienced an issue of buttons "jumping around" the page when circumstances changed, which led to clicking on stuff people didn't want to click on. We added it to keep button placement consistent and predictable.

If anything, there are current exceptions to this rule that should stop being exceptions.
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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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That's a really great point, though Liche does good to point out that it sometimes isn't clear which buttons are greyed out vs which aren't.
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Re: UI: Hide Unusable Skills

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Making disabled buttons easier to distinguish sounds like a great idea.
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