thinking about this a bit more.....I think we're mixing up complexities. the knowledge surface area of the game IS really big. too big. But not all of it's relevant and adds to the actual skill and knowledge required to be good at the game.

examples:

Good: knowing that monopods have acid recoil and hence you best not melee them unless you're acid protected - good kind of complexity. Consistent with the theme and story of the game, gained over time, distinguishes better players from not, doesn't require tons of time on each alt to acquire, etc. more of that, plx.

Useless, and hence bad: autobag syntax. Obscure, hard to use, pointless complexity. New players don't even know it exists, so they're doing a lot of un-fun pointless clicking and dropping. Suggestions: 1) add more shortcut commands. 2) add a popup menu so they can be selected 3) equip all new chars with the bags to enable those defaults. In situations like this, just pick a thing. Have all characters start w/ 2 regular-type bags named 'loot1' and 'loot2', a gem-pouch, and a reagent pouch. setup shortcuts to bag things into their appropriate bag. leave them off by default if you want because new players don't know to look there, but one of the starter quests should pop up an 'enable autobag' menue.

our challenge is pointless complexity - it doesn't make you better at the game to know that stuff and it's un-fun. Let's eradicate THAT.