Player Associations Archive
Thread: Why cant the Guild members list be in Alphabetical order?
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Cry4Dawn
Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:10 pm
#1
Why is this such a hard thing to do? Why didnt SOE come up with a way to do it or have it do it automatically?
Jascentia
Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:21 pm
#2
My best guess:
It isn't a matter of hard. It is a matter of getting someone whose head is in another part of the code to drop everything and go work on the Guild Member Display part of the code, when the part of code they are currently working on already has a deadline... I ask for this pretty much every chance I get. It just has to get on someone's list, at a time when they are in betweencomplex projects.
Xscape
Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:32 am
#3
That option is needed for both Guilds & City hall, I would settle for a dump to txt option though allowing sorting out of game.
Ariven
Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:32 am
#4
Jascentia wrote:My best guess:It isn't a matter of hard. It is a matter of getting someone whose head is in another part of the code to drop everything and go work on the Guild Member Display part of the code, when the part of code they are currently working on already has a deadline... I ask for this pretty much every chance I get. It just has to get on someone's list, at a time when they are in between complex projects.
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.name;
instead of
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.PAjoindate; (or whatever it was).
It's not like they can honestly tell you that it is a hard thing to change.. /frown
MajorXP
Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:51 pm
#5
Ariven wrote:
Jascentia wrote:
My best guess:
It isn't a matter of hard. It is a matter of getting someone whose head is in another part of the code to drop everything and go work on the Guild Member Display part of the code, when the part of code they are currently working on already has a deadline... I ask for this pretty much every chance I get. It just has to get on someone's list, at a time when they are in between complex projects.
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.name;
instead of
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.PAjoindate; (or whatever it was).
It's not like they can honestly tell you that it is a hard thing to change.. /frown
actually the sort order is by character creation date
Ariven
Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:28 am
#6
MajorXP wrote:
Ariven wrote:
Jascentia wrote:My best guess:It isn't a matter of hard. It is a matter of getting someone whose head is in another part of the code to drop everything and go work on the Guild Member Display part of the code, when the part of code they are currently working on already has a deadline... I ask for this pretty much every chance I get. It just has to get on someone's list, at a time when they are in between complex projects.
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.name;
instead of
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.PAjoindate; (or whatever it was).
It's not like they can honestly tell you that it is a hard thing to change.. /frown
actually the sort order is by character creation date
/grin doesn't change my example though...
SQL code isn't hard to write when dealing with simple queries.
Jascentia
Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:21 am
#7
While I don't claim to know anything about the code involved here, I agree it is probably an easy fix. The issue is that the devs are so busy working on the things that are really hard and have deadlines (sometimes past due deadlines)that a simple tweak to a line of code doesn't show upon their priority list.
Darktracer
Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:57 pm
#8
Ariven wrote:
Jascentia wrote:
While I don't claim to know anything about the code involved here, I agree it is probably an easy fix. The issue is that the devs are so busy working on the things that are really hard and have deadlines (sometimes past due deadlines) that a simple tweak to a line of code doesn't show up on their priority list.
Nerf the devs!!!
in my opinion a bunch of minor "playability" tweaks would be worthy of a major publish "Real Soon Now" ....
I have an Idea Jas come to NY, I'll get some of my friends from the projects in Brooklyn (the ones that got out of prison), we hop a plane over to Cali andeither the devs change the PA system or my friends show them what jail is like.
This will either get us those changes or thrown in jail either or it will be an interesting time
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Ariven
Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:00 am
#9
Jascentia wrote:While I don't claim to know anything about the code involved here, I agree it is probably an easy fix. The issue is that the devs are so busy working on the things that are really hard and have deadlines (sometimes past due deadlines) that a simple tweak to a line of code doesn't show up on their priority list.
Nerf the devs!!!
in my opinion a bunch of minor "playability" tweaks would be worthy of a major publish "Real Soon Now" ....
MajorXP
Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:19 am
#10
Ariven wrote:
MajorXP wrote:
Ariven wrote:
Jascentia wrote:
My best guess:
It isn't a matter of hard. It is a matter of getting someone whose head is in another part of the code to drop everything and go work on the Guild Member Display part of the code, when the part of code they are currently working on already has a deadline... I ask for this pretty much every chance I get. It just has to get on someone's list, at a time when they are in between complex projects.
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.name;
instead of
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.PAjoindate; (or whatever it was).
It's not like they can honestly tell you that it is a hard thing to change.. /frown
actually the sort order is by character creation date
/grin doesn't change my example though...
SQL code isn't hard to write when dealing with simple queries.
agreed.... I was not commenting on your code - rather simply clarifying the current (and worthless) sort order.
PS- I fully agree that we could use a big 'playability' fix. Start off by letting us save the options whenwe logout. 
Message Edited by MajorXP on 08-24-2004 02:20 PM
Ariven
Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:45 am
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MajorXP wrote:
Ariven wrote:
MajorXP wrote:
Ariven wrote:
Jascentia wrote:My best guess:It isn't a matter of hard. It is a matter of getting someone whose head is in another part of the code to drop everything and go work on the Guild Member Display part of the code, when the part of code they are currently working on already has a deadline... I ask for this pretty much every chance I get. It just has to get on someone's list, at a time when they are in between complex projects.
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.name;
instead of
Select all from userbase where PAmembership = 'somepa' order by userbase.PAjoindate; (or whatever it was).
It's not like they can honestly tell you that it is a hard thing to change.. /frown
actually the sort order is by character creation date
/grin doesn't change my example though...
SQL code isn't hard to write when dealing with simple queries.agreed.... I was not commenting on your code - rather simply clarifying the current (and worthless) sort order.
PS- I fully agree that we could use a big 'playability' fix. Start off by letting us save the options when we logout.
Message Edited by MajorXP on 08-24-2004 02:20 PM
But hey, we will be able to call pets from our toolbar soon...
sigh
Its getting hard to keep the enjoyment level up here..
MajorXP
Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:13 am
#12
Cry4Dawn wrote:
Why is this such a hard thing to do? Why didnt SOE come up with a way to do it or have it do it automatically?
It would make too much sense to be able to sort by a column.
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