Quote Originally Posted by Miiyo View Post
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.