I have been going back and forth from the Explore screen and my Inventory that's open in another tab.

But every time I get into a battle, I have to put my 'spring clean' of my inventory on hold.

I can understand not being able to USE items in the inventory during battle, but there is no reason that someone can't shift them into other places or stack identical items together during battle.

After all, it's not like WE are the ones fighting since the Sylesti are the ones that do that, and there is a no reason that a well trained Sylesti can't obey verbal commands during a fight, while the owner is otherwise occupied.

(I have level 40 something pets that are currently fighting level 10 something. I have a RIGHT to be distracted by more important things then this Dagnabit!)

While I understand that the inconvenience is unreasonable, it's rather easy to fix this by finishing up the battle...

A battle where "level 40 something pets that are currently fighting level 10 something" doesn't seem difficult to finish. It shouldn't take more than 10 turns.
And I guess it's sarcasm or exaggeration, but the right to be distracted by your inventory in the middle of a battle? I don't get it. x:

If you want to clean your inventory, do so.
If you happen to be in a battle, finish it.
If you can't have both, do one or the other.

The suggestion is valid and I understand completely that its a bit inconvenient to have items locked in place during a battle, but it would be more responsible for the player to finish their battles or whatever preoccupation that locked them out of doing anything else. x:

You've got a point, Flute, but I do agree with the suggestion. No, we shouldn't be able to use potions or Exp orbs while in battle, but avatar and exploration items should be fine.
With this last fest in particular, I can't tell you have many times I'd get an item from the elves, say, "Just got a _____, any interest?" in the chat, continue along my way, then glance over to see someone's chatted, "Yumi Yes!" Now I have to talk prices and probably scroll up in the chat because I wasn't paying attention to who was interested. Once we decide on a price, I go to my inventory, find the item, set it up to send their way, and then.....Nope! Hey you're in a battle.
By that time I've not even started the battle because of the negotiation and I have to now put all of my time into that before I forget who the person was. It's really aggravating when I realized that Tywhatsherface was spawned and rushed over to her before she disappeared before I got the interest. It would typically take me 92 turns to take her out, which is apparently good, but still. Then I have to not completely forget about the deal in general when I'm done with her. Or remember after I've taken two steps and got attacked by a wild.

But yeah. Not priority, but still nice suggestion. Items that don't affect the pets themselves should be fine. Potions, orbs, mutators, or dyes of course wouldn't work. I mean, you are in battle. You can't dye your pet while they're fighting....-imagines it-

That problem would arise in the scenario where you had a long battle and a way to talk to people anyhow aha.
Aside from festivals (the time when people trade the most while battling), more than half the site's content doesn't have a "region chat". Again, I see the point in the suggestion, though it's a problem that only arises in certain conditions (ie if there wasn't a boss in the first place, battles would be much easier to clear and it'll be easier to access items to trade away, especially since there's a region chat to actively trade stuff in).

I acknowledge that this is a valid suggestion, especially when the entire site is going to be revamped to the map-region interface (so there's probably more times in the future other than festivals where people would possibly want to trade items with people in the middle of a battle...on the same page as their battle). I still find it complicated (with the current inventory interface) to just single out certain items (avatar wearables and things that AREN'T pet related) to be movable/tradable/usable/whatever.

Like I said before, this suggestion is valid, and probably a good one if the inventory is going to be revamped along with the rest of the site. Though, not ALL battles are with a boss that takes 90 moves to finish. Not ALL trades happen when you happen to be in battle.

It's more of a convenience vs player responsibility thing, which has its place. (I know that Krin talked about that kind of thing in several other suggestions, where some features start to sound like "the game is playing itself for you", which sounds somewhat reasonable (this suggestion in particular isn't that the game is playing itself for you, but its just convenience for the player to be able to do something under a certain event. I've went along with always finishing my battles before trading/moving items, so I see the point of view in it, but I still think the suggestion is a good one in light of revamps and all.)

The reason for this error is a rather simple one. When created, it was much easier to put at the top of the page, "If in battle, error, you cannot do anything while in battle." Instead of writing the error for a bunch of specific actions, but not for others.

So that's the logic behind it.

I have to admit that I found this limitation very irksome this fest due to the premature end that happened mid fest. I had just found a Epic Luffox I wanted to spice and couldn't because the fest had 'ended' and trying to use a spice extractor resulted in an error because they could only be used during a festival. Not wanting to loose out on an epic spice and being unable to do anything (other than use the forum) I was stuck with no other choice but to logout until the festival issue was fixed. >.<


While I realize that this sort of incident is not overly common, it was still very annoying. So personally, I agree that it would be nice if we could DO more things during battle, so long as it won't affect the actual battle.