Shipwright Archive
Thread: For the love of a Legless Lamb let us sort by component level
I wondered if I was the only one to do that kind of price/sorting. I do the same kind of thing except an RE level 1 would be listed a 11000, RE level 2 at 12000, and so on. Thing is, is that pilots still buy the non-RE'd stuff before I get enough to RE them and no one has yet to sell me thier loot, even for 1500 cr per RE level.
I've taken to placing all re-able loot in a backpack by level and storeing it on a vendor.
IIscandar wrote:
The number one issue I would think, is that we have to resort to using vendors in order to store these things in the first place. As it is though, it is the best way we have.
I agree that the RE level being at the bottom is a bit of a headache too. Hang in there, I'll put something in about this. Remind me if you don't see it up there in a few days
Not just that, but customers complain about this as well--this is the number one reason why I leave the name of the component alone while crafting (with the exception of my trademark appended to the end). I personally don't sell looted components, and gave up on RE'ing a long time ago (primarily as a private protest of how much better looted components were than the ones I could craft at the time). However, when searching for a particular component, there is nothing in the name of the component that allows you easily search by its level.
Now, this all comes around to the discussion that has been going on in the Merchants forum for a long time. The categories and filters are far from robust and need to be rethought. Unfortunately, given recent experiences with the CU, I'm afraid of the devs mucking around with the database much more 
The backpacks are named by type and level, such as "Weapons 8" or "Capcitors 4". The backpack names are also color coded. Doing a name-sort allows me to find the backpack I need very quickly. When I RE an item, it gets a completely custom name, with the level in roman numerals (why can't we use numbers???). This doesn't cause any confusion because I don't actually craft any components. Just chassis and consumables. I actually like it this way.
Message Edited by BonesDragon on 05-05-2005 09:57 AM