Suggestion: Quality of life 'E' button or Scythe Tool

[Bojazz]

Would it be possible to make the 'E' button act more like swinging a pick or axe so you hold the button down and continuously grab things? When you're farming berries/fiber from plants holding 'E' farms a single plant or rock and then requires another press. This is particularly hard on the keyboard and finger when farming large amounts of plants at lower levels before you have access to a dino to do it for you. When farming jungle plants you tend to get 4 or 5 rocks that were laying nearby before you're even able to collect from the plant, so it ends up taking 5 or more presses to farm a single plant.

EDIT: Ruck/leftharted suggested a Scythe tool capable of harvesting plants without picking up rocks. This seems like a very good idea, and would solve the issue with picking up stones at the same time.

[Moga CMDR]

well for plants you can just hold it down to gather. for rocks its one at a time. BUt you end up picking up rocks first.

So the priority could be switched to picking up plants first, since you rarely even see the rocks that are grabbed anyway.

[Enguhl]

I was thinky the same thing. My clicky clacky keyboard doesn't help either.

[Bojazz]

Neptune, I know you can hold it down for one plant, but when you're gathering 50 plants in a lush jungle area, that's 50 unneeded button presses, excluding the rocks you don't want.

[Moga CMDR]

well i don't want to pick up 50 rocks, so they need to fix that IMO. The rate you pick up rocks is crazy.

The swipe thing could work if they changed the system a bit. Right now you have no clue what action it really is going to take. You just know if the icon is a hand or a tool.

So, if I knew for certain it was going to get plants, and stay in plant mode that would be fine.

[Rukk]

Possibly suggest a Sai of sorts to build as a tool that could be swung to gather mutliple bushes. but nothing crazy like riding a trike or stego to farm. That would e a good "farmers" tool

[leftharted]

add a Scythe.

should gather fiber, and have a small radial AE like a Stego.

either that or make one of the herbivores gather mostly fiber, few berries (since they are All berry-centric.)

[Bojazz]

That scythe idea is fantastic and solves ALL the issues brought up! Even if it's just targets a single bush at a time, it would be a vast improvement to the current 'E' button. +1 to that!

[ReDead]

I feel that the amount of time I spend gathering insane amounts of materials is a perfect form of self torture. Holding the "E" button would be a start, but I don't hate myself enough to play this game again.

[Aarku]

I really do want "hold E" to gather, instead of spamming it.

When going on a fiber gather spree, I rebind my E to Mousewheel just to make it easier on my finger.

Even if they add in a fiber gathering dino or a scythe, they still need to make it Hold E to gather.

[NiteFever]

this is a great idea and it needs to be implemented. i play using an XBOX controller and my Y button really dislikes me when i need to farm berries

[Euri]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468627077

With how much people seem to agree fiber is the worst, hopefully this guy is at the top of the list for being added in game.