How can you make the Inventory list readable?

[Lyssabeth]

With my tradeskill items being spread apart all over my characters is there a way to make the inventory log pretty? Right now I get all sorts of rubbish in that list (lots of extra numbers and useless information) and it is a very poor format.

[Bebinn]

I use magelo to find stuff in my inventory. go to the site, download the update installer and launch it. On the settings, check off automatically save character reports, tell it where to save and whenever you run it, it will update the file. Magelo outputs a file with your inventory alphabetized and then it shows where the stuff is stored, very handy for finding where you stashed that smithing chisel last time you used it.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

I generally use a text editor with the tabs set to a large number of spaces. Then do a find-in-files for the item(s) I'm looking for, to get a nice quick listing of where and how much I have of the item.

The files are a nice tab-delimited listing, basically begging to be imported into a spreadsheet program (MS Excel, WP QuatroPro, OOo Calc, etc) for easy use. There you can sort, search, rearrange, and whatnot to your heart's desire in a program designed to do exactly that.

[Nolrog]

I use magelo to find stuff in my inventory. go to the site, download the update installer and launch it. On the settings, check off automatically save character reports, tell it where to save and whenever you run it, it will update the file. Magelo outputs a file with your inventory alphabetized and then it shows where the stuff is stored, very handy for finding where you stashed that smithing chisel last time you used it.

Don't you have to pay for a premium account in order to do this? They are not expensive from what I remember though.

[tomojo]

Don't you have to pay for a premium account in order to do this? They are not expensive from what I remember though.

You don't need the Premium Service to get the reports. But, you will be sending your character data to Magello as the price you pay to generate these reports. You have to start the Magello Updater, then start the game and bring characters into the game to get the data for the reports.

The biggest thing that Magello provides with its Premium Service is that the data for your characters is automatically updated on their site every time the active character zones, which includes all the odd player stats that you would have trouble keeping accurate (ATK, HP, etc.).

[Silound]

The other thing is they offer the ability to have a voucher for your profile as being real.

Not all that useful unless you plan on changing servers, in which case, my server for one can be very nasty about people with good profiles who don't necessarily want to release who they are and where they're from.

[Sanna]

Last I looked, Magelo was $12 for a year. And you know, I wonder if my year is about up.

Being on a fixed (read: none) income, what I /do/ pay for games is rather a heavy load. But: Magelo is THE BEST $12 I have spent in pursuit of EQ in a very long time. On some days, "the best" includes the money I've spent subscribing to EQ itself. o_0

No, you don't need to pay for Magelo to get these reports... but some patch Magelo did a couple months ago -- the one where he rewrote the entiiiire thing -- really changed how it outputs the list... No longer useful to me. Alas.

Magelo, paid or unpaid, still rocks. /nod.

-- Sanna

[Lyssabeth]

Sorry, i won't be running any background programs that "collects" information from EQ. I was thinking more of some easy way to manipulate the text file into something easy to read.

[Felicite]

Sorry, i won't be running any background programs that "collects" information from EQ.

That is certainly your right.. I support that.. it's your computer. But Magelo is not some spooky Russian shareware, it is the de facto standard:

To sum it up in a few numbers, nowadays, Magelo is:

- More than 560,000 profiles managed
- More than 34,000 items in our database
- Around 430 GB of compressed input/output data per month
- About 190,000 profiles viewed per day, that’s 2 profiles displayed per seconds!

All of the top guilds on most every server use it to collect and post character profiles. Ever seen "www.eqrankings.com" that uses Magelo's profile database to provide "top n" lists for a server (or serverwide)?

I try and resync my 5 accounts (yes, shame on me) as often as I can just for this reason.. when I am not logged in to EQ and read about something.. and I know I have it, somewhere.. I can browse my profiles and find it.

Yes.. I <3 Magelo

[Dunthor Warsmith]

That is certainly your right.. I support that.. it's your computer. But Magelo is not some spooky Russian shareware, it is the de facto standard:

I still don't like it. And something being the de facto standard doesn't mean its not still bad for you :P

[Eoghaill Iochtar]

Sorry, i won't be running any background programs that "collects" information from EQ. I was thinking more of some easy way to manipulate the text file into something easy to read.

Well, if you have access to Excel, or just about any Spreadsheet programm for that matter, it should be easy enough to import. Try to import the data via the "Data->External Data->Text File" section. If you set delimiter to "tabulators" I believe it should come out quite decent even with the standard options. Columns will be Location, Item name, Item ID, Count, Slots. You can probably skip the ID column, and the Slots one is only relevant for containers so you might want to skip that one too.

After this you will have a decent easily sortable list in a spreadsheet to play with, and depending on your experience in using those you can play around with doing summaries over all characters and other useful stuff or even match the ingredients you have to certain tradeskill combines you plan to do.

[Felicite]

I still don't like it. And something being the de facto standard doesn't mean its not still bad for you :P

Actually.. I would say you are on to something there..

[Thunderheart]

I wish Sony would do the same fancy character web pages and info that the players of EQ2 get. Here is an example if you have not seen it yet.

[mewkus]

I've got a program that reads both your inventory and spellbook files and helps to ogranize them. If you care to give it a try, you can download it from http://www.geocities.com/boogle27/InventoryTool.zip

I run several characters across several accounts with lots of different mules. This program has proved invaluable to me. It lists which spells you're missing, can make an excel/html file with a table of items you're trying to track across several character's inventory files. If you turn log on and list your keys & talk with the Seer in PoK, it'll list what's left in your flagging and which keys you're missing. It'll also list items still needed for several different quests you're working on.

The zip file includes an acrobat manual. The zip file is somewhere around 700k and expands to about 3.5MB. While it does require you to run as an application on your computer, it doesn't do the share memory with EQ thing and only takes as input the inventory, spellbook, and log files (plus those files that it creates and updates). If you wish, it can be run on a completely different computer that doesn't even have to be hooked up to the net.

As a disclaimer though, it's a program that i'm stilll working on and will be constantly modified, so there are still some holes in it. But it sounds like it will be the solution to what you're asking for.