I have two unrelated suggestions. (Obligatory "Sorry if these are suggested somewhere else but I looked and didn't see them, so I don't think so but maybe I missed it, sorry" apology. There it is.)

Suggestion one:

Make one of the quest-givers (Library, Sarah, Cursed, whatever) have a chance of giving out whatever the Recycle Beast wants that day.

It seems like most quests give out random garbage when you finish them... okay maybe not random, I mean, it seems as if they have some kind of theme or come from some restock location or whatever, but in general it's just garbage no one wants. (Or at least I don't want it. I can't be the only one.) So making one of these quest-givers likely to give out Recycle Beast items would actually give me junk I DO want. You could do it for whoever is the least popular quest-person, I don't know who that is (for me personally it's Cinthia), but that would surely bump up their popularity.

This may be ridiculously-hard-almost-impossible to implement, and if so ah well, gave it a shot.

Edit: has made this suggestion better (and undoubtedly easier to implement) by suggesting they give out recycle points rather than daily recycle items. So yay! For that!

Suggestion two:

Separate Shops and Galleries from each other on the page that comes after clicking the "Move to a shop" link on items from Inventory.

They seem to currently be arranged by order of creation, and since in this new incarnation of shops I've got mine listed like so:

Shop Gallery Shop Gallery Shop

This is annoying not just because it's annoying, but also because they're all close together so sometimes I accidentally put something in a gallery when trying to click a shop. Then I have to go in and find and move the item, which is irritating. >.< Just putting shops on top and galleries on bottom with maybe just one line of space between the two, separating them, would be a suuuuuper help. Like so:

Shop Shop Shop

Gallery Gallery

I may still put them in the wrong shop like a dummy, but for me it doesn't matter WHICH shop they go into, as long as they go into a shop. (Once I actually sell off most of my stuff I'm only gonna have one shop anyway, so that'll be the end of that problem altogether if it's nicely separated from my galleries.)

So. Anyone with me on these?

Edit!! Suggestion two has happened! Yaay! They're broken up by Shops first, Galleries second, and alphabetical within each category. It also seems they're in the same order on the drop-down, so those of you who were (rightfully) concerned about that displaying things in a different order have gotten your wish too.

Thanks to whatever staff member implemented this, whether or not it was due to this thread or an amazing coincidence. ^-^

support for the second suggestion.

the first suggestion sounds funny. "here's some junk as a prize, please recycle it for me" I wouldn't mind it though, I hardly do quests as it is and I don't think this would hurt too much. I can't do Sarah quests though because of sP restrictions. maybe someone should just occasionally give you a recycle point, which is also a weird idea because quests already give out quest points, sP, items (which can be fragged for crystals), and if you do wiz, tokens.

Oops, I can't do Sarah either! I meant Cinthia. XD Changing that.

Yeah I was just thinking they'd give you the stuff and you'd have to know it went to the Recycle Beast to be able to recycle it, but giving the recycle point would maybe be better. Surely easier to put into action.

I think cinthia quests were made better recently? I don't know though, I don't pay attention :X I wouldn't mind though if someone gave out recycleables more often than other items. probably only the r1-99 ones though. or a direct point like I said, that makes more sense to me. maybe instead of any item rewards occasionally you just get a point. that way it accomplishes the same goal of getting rid of an item :)

Now I'm thinkin' about who's likely to be in cahoots with the Recycle Beast. Hm. Alexander the library guy might be pro-recycling if, like, his books are made of recycled paper. Or maybe Carl, who reclines drunkenly on a pile of junk, is sympathetic to the Recycle Beast who... lives on a pile of junk.

Or maybe they're enemies for that very reason. ~.^ Junk wars!!

the hustler lives by a trash can, maybe he can give a recycle point occasionally :p

[edit] my shops are in a different order now I think, are yours?

Nope, same order... you're either crazy or your account is possessed.

Open-mouthed gape

Or both. Or I don't pay attention... It's probably sorted by ID number which makes my shops last and I hadn't paid attention until now and I was remembering the order of my old shops xD

Yeah, probably. XD

Actually, until this new shop system I didn't know they were sorted by ID and I thought they were divided up by shops first then galleries. I only had one shop and two galleries and the shop came first, so it was at the top. That's why I never officially suggested my second suggestion. But now that I've got the three shops and I see they're divided by how I created them, I think it's time to get suggest... y. Suggestumentative.

In regards to the edit in the OP, it seems kinda weird to me that a random quest giver would hand out recycle points. Imagine if the recycle beast was giving out quest points, or if Jaxon Skelly gave you a vesnali coin.

Mayyybe. But, then, in a way the Mage Amulet is a sort of coin you turn into the Mage, and Quentin gives out those (but didn't always).

Okay so it's not a coin, but I mean, you know... my point is that Quentin wasn't connected to the Mage, until for some reason they were. Can't exactly remember how they explained that one, but yeah. XD They're always coming up with new ways to intersect the characters and expanding those Subetapedia entries to build a richer world. It could be done.

I just want the same ordering for shops/galleries across the site. The "Commerce" tab dropdown lists them alphabetically, while they're listed by ID everywhere else. It throws me off every single time.

I did not ever notice that. O.O

Now that I have, yeah... at least standardizing would be good. XD

Oh man, if quests gave out recycle points that'd be awesome, but it seems a little odd? Like what said. Like, Oh look you brought me this toy/book/food/purple thing, have a currency that has nothing to do with me! I've always kind of wondered why Quentin gives out mage amulets, but at least Quentin and the mage are neighbors in Shadowglen so it sort of makes sense.

It'd be better if the Recycle Beast was his own quest that gave out recycle points. Like instead of being able to just turn in items for points, he sends you on a quest to fetch those items and gives you points in return?

I'm also all for reordering the shops. It doesn't bother me that much? but I'm all for streamlining or making things more logical.

This, for the love of Shinwa. Because of this inconsistency I keep quickstocking or just moving single items to wrong shops, since most of the time I go by where is it placed on the list..

The Recycle Beast getting his own quests might be okay... except giving him junk for points is already a sort of quests.

I was thinking about this in the shower the other night, and I came up with this rough idea that one of the quest people, say, Cinthia (who needs a revamp because she is creeeeepy) or someone could've maybe found the Recycle Beast as a baby. Maybe he was wandering the streets or sewers or something, and they thought he was just some weird little stray animal, so they took him in as a pet. And then only when he grew up and started speaking did they realize he was intelligent and sentient, and now he's got his own thing going on but they remain great friends because they have fond memories of cuddling each other and being friends.

Anyway yeah, you definitely don't want to have a quest-giver be suddenly all like, "Here's recycle tokens!" but doing it by giving a background on the Recycle Beast is not only great because yay, tokens, but because what IS his back-story? I want to know! The Subetapedia is all like, "His name and background is a mystery," so it's about time they expand on that!

Although since it says he's been around "as long as anyone can remember," we probably need someone older than Cinthia to have been friends with him when he was a baby. Unless she's some kind of non-growing-up immortal or something. Maybe Saggitarius, hmm, he could be longer-lived than he looks. Which would also be funny, them being friends, because he likes expensive fancy stuff and the Recycle Beast lives in junk and stinks like garbage. XD

Oh hey, it says Saggitarius used to slay dragons, maybe oh, maybe he was out dragon-slaying, and he found the Beast and thought he was a dragon, and almost slayed him but then didn't and took him home instead! Maybe that's why he stopped slaying dragons and realized that was a shit thing to do! And then, and then... and now I just kinda wanna write this silly fan-fiction by myself. <.<