Collections (Destiny)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Tuesday, August 04, 2020, 15:06 (1360 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

Why not use DIM? Cause I don't want to use a third party app for something that is much easier for me in game. What if I don't have my phone on me? Hell, what if I don't have a smart phone? I don't use DIM because I don't need DIM to have fun in Destiny. You make it sound like a required tool to efficiently play Destiny.

I mean…It is? I suppose I am far more aware of the capabilities and benefits of DIM because know one of the developers, but I really think that even absent that I can't imagine trying to play the game without it (or some other inventory API tool). I'm not saying it is required to play, but to play efficiently? Yeah. for sure.

To get something I need that's on another char I will log off, log in that character, load the tower, move the item into the vault, log off, log back in with the right char, load the tower, pull it out of the vault, and then it's 20-30 minutes later? are people waiting for me during all of that? I'm going to leave an event to go to the tower to check to see if the postmaster is full or not? I have a dozen different versions of the same weapon. How am I going to compare them and choose what to keep? These are just the things that are baked into the gameplay loop. I have not even gotten into stuff like saved load outs or finding which vendors across 7 different locations will upgrade you at the given moment or doing the min-max stuff people talked about below.

I'm with you if your point is that it should not be this way, but yeah, it would be like playing with restraints. I don't need DIM to play Destiny the same way I don't need a headset.

(also FWIW, DIM is a web site not an app so you don't need a smartphone)