Make key items and regular items sortable in alphabetic order!

[Hulan]

Alphabetical isn't possible, but what about manual sorting. I'm saying this mainly in regard to Atma. Would it be possible to be able to sort manually (like magic spells), and having the order of the atma in the key items be reflected in the menu at the atma infusionist?

Unfortunately, given what Camate has said, the same fundamental problem would assail them in this case as well. Although, one possibility that comes to mind right off would be a lookup table that serves as an intermediary ID on the client side. Such a solution is problematic for FFXI however, since they have to consider the memory usage for PS2 users and at best, the lookup table would have a size complexity on the order of n where n is the number of inventory item types. Alternatively, they could store an individual lookup table for each person on the server similar to the macro saving mechanic; depending on how Key Items and Inventory are sent to sent to the player, however, such a system would horribly bog down the inventory checking process.

[Lushipur]

Alphabetical isn't possible, but what about manual sorting. I'm saying this mainly in regard to Atma. Would it be possible to be able to sort manually (like magic spells), and having the order of the atma in the key items be reflected in the menu at the atma infusionist?

when they will release the atma fix, you could create a list of preferite atma to use...this will solve most of the problem i suppose ^^

[Kaych]

Thats a good question Miico^-^ Would be nice to be able to sort it in some way. I could settle for manual sorting if it wasnt possible to make it automatic^_-

[Jackastheripper]

What about just adding submenus for atmas and abyssites? It may not solve the problem, but at least it would ease the congestion without worrying about cross-language mess ups. I know that moving those 2 items out of the temp-key items submenu would help a lot.

[Purrs]

We can sort the auction house alphabetically though. I'm sure not all those spells are the same in every language. So either key items only are sorted by ID# or I can't really understand a reason this can't be done.

[Camate]

After speaking with the development team regarding the possibility of organizing key items manually, we were informed that unfortunately it's not currently possible from a technical standpoint. The dev. team also asked us to pass along their apologies.

[Kaych]

After speaking with the development team regarding the possibility of organizing key items manually, we were informed that unfortunately it's not currently possible from a technical standpoint. The dev. team also asked us to pass along their apologies.

Thats unfortunate >_> But since you are saying "not currently possible", maybe it will be in the future^_-

[Fusionx]

How about better organization of Atma, Abyssites and NM pop key items? Perhaps their own categories? It's all just thrown into a long list at the moment making it very hard to find what I'm looking for sometimes.

[Treasurehider]

How about better organization of Atma, Abyssites and NM pop key items? Perhaps their own categories? It's all just thrown into a long list at the moment making it very hard to find what I'm looking for sometimes.

I like this idea.

I'm one of those freaks that likes to complete everything.... I've been working on completing EVERY city quest and such for a long time ... and let me tell you how difficult it is when I take a break and then come back and am like "Did I finish this quest or no?" Hard to find it in the long list of now completed quests.

I've since reverted to a very complex Excel spreadsheet that shows every quest in every city, town, zone. Every Atma, every Abyssite, every spell, every (still adding stuff to it).

I'm a bit ... something something something. I find it difficult to believe that the sorting of these lists "alphabetically" would be a technical hurdle from development standpoint. However, they did seem to respond specifically to "manual sort".

It would make things much easier.

As would this:

Additionally, I sometimes have trouble finding a key item. Can we add a 5th option in key items that gives you a master list of everything, in alphabetical order?

/like!

[Venrymel]

... I rather dislike the idea of having my Ziska's crossbow at the bottom of the list because it starts with Z ...

I think you might be unaware of what holding CTRL allows you to do while examining multiple item lists. It dawned on me, recently, that this function might already be in place, tried it and was overjoyed. Much like SHIFT can let you move the camera with arrow keys while a menu is open, CTRL+L/R lets you page down when it isn't just one list open.