Sort Commodities in the Inventory transfer menu in alphabetical order

[goemon]

We are all very happy, that ancient egypt invented the alphabet. Otherwise - no letters, no forum.

Sometime later, around 1000 BCE northwest semitic scribes invented alphabetic orders. The library of alexandria started our alphabetic order around 300 BCE. It's a crazy effective concept - i don't know whether you know it. In a catalogue of things, for exampel of commodities, you don't order them randomly ("Tiolce Waste2Paste Units, Indite, Indium, Thargoid Resin, Aepyornis Egg...") but in literally the alphabetic order some people learn at schools: A, B, C ... or in this exampel: "Aepyornis Eggs, Indite, Indium, Thargoid Resin, TiolceWaste2Paste".

If you don't know the concept of alphabetic order, i recommend looking it up. It has a crazy effect on usability of your catalogue of things. A user does not need to scroll through all threehundred something different commodities and read every line, if they look for Gold in their fleetcarriers inventory, but they know that Gold will come after Commodities starting with F, and before Commodities starting with H - if that user has learned alphabetic order, for exampel at school. It's pure magic, very advanced stuff.

I suggest you use alphabetic order in the inventory transfer tab.

 

[Ladiesknight]

The thread isn't that fresh, but I didn't want to start a new one with the same topic.

The thread editor wrote in an ironic way, what I felt very often lately:

Why are odyssey items sorted by whatever indexe frontier chose, but not in alphabetical order?

I have to admit when beeing in my ship, even all odyssey items are sorted by alphabetical order.

But as soon as I am on my way on foot, items in my backpack or at the barkeepers are not sorted in any way from my point of view.

I do not play in english, but I don't feel it is just sorted in original language in odyssey environment - it feels not sorted in any way - that makes it hard to find the item you are looking for and takes unnecessary amount of time for searching - every time ;-(

Can Frontier please sort odyssey items everywhere like they are sorted when beeing in the ship?

 

[HRDiagram]

The fact that a thread in the Suggestions forum had zero responses and has been necroed almost 10 months later, means that the suggestion made is a good one, with no need for further comments.

I would love to be able to sort the inventories, alphabetical order is a good start and, if only one had to be implemented, that would be it. If there was a chance to add additional options, though, all the better.

What baffles me is that currently there is no apparent sorting order that could be relevant to the user: it's not alphabetical, it's not by category, it's not chronological (time of acquisition/transfer), it's not by quantity, it's not by value. I struggle to see any patterns in its current state.

 

[Brimston]

True,
My guess is that the actual order is an ID order (kind of creation order) ; first (or last) things are the olders created ingame.

Still actual order is useless and obviously needs update, why not add (in option menu or in tab) the possibility to order by price, name, amount on board, pickup order, ect...

 

[Ladiesknight]

I would love to be able to sort the inventories, alphabetical order is a good start and, if only one had to be implemented, that would be it. If there was a chance to add additional options, though, all the better.

Oh yes, I didn't dare to wish more options of sorting, in first place I would already be happy with an alphabetical order. Options or even more options in the tables with odyssey-items would be a dream