alphabetical sorting of base storage
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Posted on: 2011-09-18 03:03 in Bug Report Forums
As was explained to you in the Base Builders Forum, this has been a longstanding request by the base building community.... The BIG List is a compilation of community requests since 2007.
While options are always nice, they are not always possible. As with many people dealing with changes, folks will have to learn to adapt.
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"Visual theme of the icons" seems pretty subjective. I don't really see how the Devs could sort stuff based upon your (or anyone else's) subjective considerations. While I would like, in some ways, to separate stuff into categories, I am delighted with the alphabetical sorting . . . it lets me find stuff fast, which is the main thing.|
Originally Posted by Todogut
In my base, I had storage sorted based on visual theme of the icons. For example, I grouped all the metals, all the gemstones, etc.
It was an unpleasant surprise following the release of Issue 21 to find that the carefully sorted contents of my salvage racks were re-ordered. It appeared to my eyes to be a bug. I posted about it in the basebuilders forum and was informed by another player about the change to alphabetical sorting. The player noted that alphabetical sorting had been a longstanding request from the community. Well, I've been a member of the community since launch, and I don't like alphabetical sorting by name. I prefer visual sorting by icon. Can an option be added to salvage racks (and other storage containers) to turn off alphabetical sorting? So that the player can sort the contents however he or she likes? (Like before.) This is an official development request from a community member. I expect it will become a longstanding request before it is fulfilled--if ever. Thank you. |
If you really want to sort things further, then just use different racks/tables.
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Seeing as how Todogut asked for an option to just turn off alphabetical sorting the Devs do not have to get involved in the optional sorting in any way.|
Originally Posted by Local_Man
"Visual theme of the icons" seems pretty subjective. I don't really see how the Devs could sort stuff based upon your (or anyone else's) subjective considerations.
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Originally Posted by Todogut
Can an option be added to salvage racks (and other storage containers) to turn off alphabetical sorting? So that the player can sort the contents however he or she likes? (Like before.)
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
I am delighted with the alphabetical sorting
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Pretty handy request, wasn't it?
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Well said.
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Originally Posted by Impish Kat
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Now they auto sort by alphabet? God this'll save me time...I have the bins divided by rarity already so alpha-sort has always been a grab/drop hassle for the inner ADD me.
This alphabetizing of storage (salvage racks, enhancement tables) is a LONG overdue improvement; it makes it so much easier to find things.
I currently have 4 racks of common salvage, 2 of uncommon and 2 of rare in my base and before if I needed, say, an Ancient Bone I had to scroll through the entire contents of a rack to know if I had one. Now I know it's going to be at the top. Likewise a Temporal Analyzer will always be down below the Spirit Thorn.
Frankly I can't see any organizational purpose in "sorting by icon"; you look at your recipe and know you need a Temporal Tracer so you scroll down until you get to salvage starting in "T". Trying to find it by icon is considerably slower.
Now if they'll only fix the SG emblem bug they just introduced... I use floor plates to ID the salvage bins and I want my "C", "U" & "R" back on those plates for the Common, Uncommon and Rare bins.
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CMA, if you had visited my base before I21, I could have shown you the elegant, efficient sorting system used in the storage racks.
Now, alas, I cannot. Because I21 ruined it.
Base storage container contents are sorted alphabetically.
It was an unpleasant surprise following the release of Issue 21 to find that the carefully sorted contents of my salvage racks were re-ordered. It appeared to my eyes to be a bug. I posted about it in the basebuilders forum and was informed by another player about the change to alphabetical sorting. The player noted that alphabetical sorting had been a longstanding request from the community.
Well, I've been a member of the community since launch, and I don't like alphabetical sorting by name. I prefer visual sorting by icon.
Can an option be added to salvage racks (and other storage containers) to turn off alphabetical sorting? So that the player can sort the contents however he or she likes? (Like before.)
This is an official development request from a community member. I expect it will become a longstanding request before it is fulfilled--if ever. Thank you.