buildings sorting

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12.05.2007, 21:24

buildings in the production menu are sorted by the name and then by the number, but i think it would be better to have them sorted by area

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.05.2007, 00:52

i think they are

but i dont know for sure

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.05.2007, 03:52

I believe right now it's by building, then by region. (Although I could be wrong, since I seem to always build the same type of building in the same place anyway.)

For example:[/u[
Germany ... Factory
Germany ... Factory
Turkey ...... Factory
Germany ... Mine
Turkey ...... Mine
Germany ... Power Plant
Mali ........... Power Plant

How is that order not good? What order would you prefer? I like it very much this way. (And of course you can always just get a specific building via the filter on the left.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.05.2007, 06:58

Saudi Arabia:19736 Mine E:7 70 m

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.05.2007, 14:18

Oh! OK, I see. Yeah I could see the appeal in that.

Of course we can make this happen ourselves just by being more selective in where we expand. I try to keep mine clustered up by size already but I do occaisionally (for whatever reason) end up putting one size 40 in the middle of a group of 20s, and it can throw me off.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.05.2007, 14:20

his idea is very gud it wud be gud to implement it

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.05.2007, 15:59

I'm all in favor of additional ways to sort out buildings as long as they are OPTIONAL. I like the default method, and have my production specifically tailored to make use of the default method. Additional ways to sort, like we have in the market, would be fantastic.

At the top of my wishlist is to be able to sort by time remaining on the current orders.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 14.05.2007, 16:32

No, I am really sorry, but this certainly won't happen.
The reason for this is the database of this game.
There you have got the building IDs and this is the only thing of the building you can't change (as your User-ID, too).

And the database is sorted by ID... ^^

The only thing you could do to avoid a different order with buildings of different sizes is to expand your buildings in that way that every building has the same size.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 14.05.2007, 16:51

i try to keep my buildings sorted this way by careful expanding, but i bought some buildings and they messed my order

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 14.05.2007, 17:04

GoldenEye wrote:No, I am really sorry, but this certainly won't happen.
The reason for this is the database of this game.
There you have got the building IDs and this is the only thing of the building you can't change (as your User-ID, too).
And the database is sorted by ID... ^^

SELECT [relevant columns]
FROM [Building Table]
WHERE [Buildings belong to player]
ORDER BY [Size] DESC