Filter and Sort contacts by service offered or Profession

[Adhiri]

This would be useful for my merchant Captain Cyndros, who knows about a hundred important people out there. If I’m looking to get, for example, achess to a black market, I have a lot of clicking through to see what each person does.

It would be nice if we could sort and/or filter by Professional (e.g. smuggler princess, retired xeno hunter) or by Service (e.g. trade permit, black market).

Thanks for the great game!

[fallen]

Thanks for the suggestion. Right now, we're looking at service being the primary new filter to add. Since there are already 45 contact types, filtering by that is pretty challenging concept.

I think with a services filter, you can star them quickly into 5 groups you like and filter there more effectively?

[Adhiri]

That’d be a great start! I think filters are tougher in the current UI than sorting.

I’d be curious to hear how other Captains use Stars to sort out contacts. I have a rudimentary system:
Blank for haven’t decided
Yellow for visit next time I’m nearby
Blue for doesn’t offer services I anticipate using soon
Red for offers black market

[MintDragon]

Dec 18, 2017 16:48:25 GMT -5 Adhiri said:

That’d be a great start! I think filters are tougher in the current UI than sorting.

I’d be curious to hear how other Captains use Stars to sort out contacts. I have a rudimentary system:
Blank for haven’t decided
Yellow for visit next time I’m nearby
Blue for doesn’t offer services I anticipate using soon
Red for offers black market

The STAR system is great to be able to filter on.  For contacts, I usually use yellow for a quick reminder of who my current focus is.  If I'm trying to build reputation from a contact and get a mission that doesn't return to that contact, I've actually forgotten who it was before. 

Yellow: Current focus
Red: They hate me/avoid (options to double-cross someone on a mission/story arc already exist, with more to come)
Blue: Story Arc Contact (early game I tend to avoid story arcs til I get experience, but landing in their zone will trigger a story arc and I will just star them and come back around when ready)
Green: Important to me contact (either service they can provide, influence I can use, etc..)