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Author Topic: Item Type Selection Enhancements  (Read 513 times)

Torrenal

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Item Type Selection Enhancements
« on: July 27, 2014, 12:54:36 pm »

I'd like to suggest just two enhancements to screens like the one for configuring what types of item stockpiles will hold.

Heck, you could ball them up into one change that allows both.

1) Sort the lists.  Finding the proper metal in an unsorted list isn't hard.  Gems is ticklish, but wading through all the forgotten beast extracts just to locate milk is silly.
2) Allow selection by base material value.  I really want to put all the valuable gems into a separate stockpile, same with metals, ores, hides, blocks, etc... But with the long lists of unsorted detail, this is a tad daunting.

How to combine the two?  Allow sorting the lists by value.  A 'by value' option might still be good for finished goods (value would take into account materials and quality...)
//Torrenal
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dudlol

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Re: Item Type Selection Enhancements
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 08:00:38 pm »

Also a search, like the manager screen has. Type milk and only things with milk in their name show up. Efficient, easy, and already exists somewhere so there's code to cannibalize.
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