We've been talking on another thread about handling this situation in a different way, making several things happen.
One, you could have more than one pistol, equipped and ready to fire with a hotkey.
Two, you could have several blades equipped - one being a knife that you might use in a different situation from acutal full on combat... (also changing the knife properties a bit)
Three, in the case of the above, you'd need three or four separate scrolls to the inventory - one, Equipped blades or blades you intend to keep - two, equipped pistols and those you wish to keep - three, OTHER items you wish to keep (such as lucky rings, and other `ability-enhancing` things) - four, all items that fall into the default "just aquired" section - these are the things you pick up in chests or off of the dead - and you can switch these items from one section to any of the others, and the ones left behind are "`sell-all`" items that can be dispensed with using one click on a button instead of the way it is now.
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Unfortunately I can't find that thread at the moment (seems like it was just yesterday <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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