New QoL setting : textbox to equip new swords/shields/tunic when finding them

[GSKirox]

Adds a new setting in Timesavers that will open a two choice textbox to ask the player if they want to equip the new sword/shield/tunic they just found, when appropriate. Appropriate meaning Link is currently the right age to use the equipment, and has not already equipped one. Small exception for Hylian shield, that will only be prompted if Link has not equipped another shield already, regardless of age, since the occasions to want to un-equip either Deku shield or Mirror shield are pretty rare.

[r0bd0g]

Something that's always seemed strange to me is, if you start with a deku shield, it auto equips. If you find a hylian shield and then go adult for the first time, that auto equips (vanilla feature). But if you find a deku shield and then go child for the first time, that doesn't auto equip. But on the other hand I kind of don't want the deku shield ever auto equipping because I don't know if I might be going near fire before I'd actually want to use the shield, so I prefer to wait to equip until the shield is definitely going to save me time if I equip it. I feel like this dialog is going to force me to always equip it right away since it makes it so it always saves time to equip it now. I guess it's a setting, right, I don't have to enable it? Do other people want this?

(Another weird auto equip is the giants knife on adult starts.)

[GSKirox]

Well the point of making this a choice textbox is that it doesn't force you to equip. If you have a chance to go near Fire as child later in the seed, it makes sense to just choose no and tank the few seconds potential loss to a less conservative player.

A solution could be to enable to un-equip shields, like OOTxMM does 👀 maybe behind another paired setting?

It is a setting yes, and not Cosmetics, so it'd be up to tournament mods and race mods to choose it for their races.

I agree auto equips could use a brush up, the giant knife one is particularly goofy.

[r0bd0g]

Honestly vanilla OoT not letting you unequip shields feels like a missing feature. (It doesn't even need to be a setting. If you don't want to unequip shields then just don't unequip it.)

[flagrama]

I sort of agree with r0bd0g. But, I feel like there should be a certain restrictions to try to keep the unequiping vanillaish.

1. You should be able to select an empty shield slot appropriate for the age to unequip. So if you have both shields for an age, you need to have one of them equipped.
2. You need to have obtained the shield to use that slot. So child can only unequip if you have found both a Deku and Hylian shield but lost one (or both) and adult can only unequip if they lost the hylian shield after finding the mirror shield.

[r0bd0g]

I was thinking you'd just click the currently equipped shield >_> (That scheme is way too complicated.)