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TL;DR

Add an option to hide the quality indicator on placed chests, so that it doesn't cover up quality indicators of the chest contents

What?

Currently, placed chests have a quality indicator on the bottom-left (when in alt-mode). I want to suggest having an option to turn off that quality indicator, so that we see just the chest (in alt-mode). This way, when in alt-mode, we can see the icons for the items inside the chest, without the chest's own quality indicator covering anything.

Why?

If there are 3 or 4 stacks of items in a chest, then the quality indicator on the third stack will be covered up by the quality indicator of the chest (see below). This makes it difficult sometimes to see what items are in the chest exactly, as I cannot see the quality on the third item stack. In the screenshot pictured below, each of the buffer chests is legendary, and this is indicated with a legendary quality icon at the bottom-left of the chest. However, each chest has stacks of items in it, and for some of these items it is impossible to tell exactly what quality is in there. For example, on the rightmost buffer chest, there is a third quality of beacons inside that chest, but it is impossible to tell at a glance what that quality is.

I think it's both cool and really helpful to be able to see icons of chest contents in alt-mode, and I use this all the time, it's a core part of the visual information in this game that I really like. But this particular point has been confusing.

+1

Ideally there should be a version of the all quality symbol ( ) for all combination of qualities being present/non-present and blackedout.
So if there is a single quality that icon can be placed. If there are two or more, it could be something like this: There can obviously be a little refinement, for any icon where legendaries are missing the outter four circles could be completed, but one would need to check how well this works when they are tiny icons on already small icons.

It may not work honestly. But I would love to see a mod or a mockup.