[Feature Request] 'Player Owned' UI Categories

[mrtus]

With stations/fleets getting larger I'm noticing this would be something really great to have in the 'Player Owned' list in the UI.

The ability to have custom named collapsible categories for the sake of organization. This would allow us to do a few nice things.

• Make the 'Player Owned' list look more sane, maybe also add the ability to do sub categories
  Organize our stations into Factory/Defence lists, sub categories for sectors or the reverse
  Organize our Traders/Miners not assigned to stations into Trader/Miner lists
  Organize our 'Personal' ships into our own list so that they don't become mixed in with other ships
  Organize our Fleets into lists, perhaps sector defence/patrol lists

This would be a really awesome QOL addition if this were to be done. With the custom naming we could make categories setup for specific tasks, an example would be a category setup exclusively for Trade ships setup for specific wares so that they would be separate from another category of Trade ships doing a different set of specific wares.

I've been doing some asking around and it seems like this is something that would be a very nice thing to have

[CBJ]

Please don't use Tech Support for feature requests. Moved to the main forum.

[Mr. Personal]

You have my vote!

[mrtus]

Please don't use Tech Support for feature requests. Moved to the main forum.

Ohhhh right on, thanks! I wasn't sure where to put it xD

[DeFragMe]

Please don't use Tech Support for feature requests. Moved to the main forum.

Ohhhh right on, thanks! I wasn't sure where to put it xD

well tech support would feel more off than the normal forum.. but hey, its a good feature request... its horrible to scroll through ~30 stations and than another lot of wings to find the ship you are searching...^^

[mr.WHO]

maybe it's worth to open X4:IDEAS/REQUESTS sub-forum?

[Daerogami]

I hope this doesn't count on bumping, I'm rather dismayed to see this got practically no traction. Managing large quantities of assets is _still_ daunting.

One alteration I'd like to make to the suggestion would be a taxonomies system (an idea I got from a CMS called Orchard Core, I'll refrain from linking to the docs as it's a super simple concept and their docs make it look more complicated).
Provide the ability to add tags to an entity (stations, fleets, ships, etc). Could be a csv string, space-separated string, or a string array, just needs to be tokenizable, most OOB search packages probably work best with a single string data type instead of an array.
Then there would be a search page added to the player property tabs. You could favorite a few tags or tag combinations for convenience.
Now you have a dedicated field for player categorization and you don't have to fudge the entity names to get usable sorting.
You could even have tags attached to ship presets and station templates so they come along for the ride when building.

[CBJ]

I hope this doesn't count on bumping,

The thread is 6 years old, so yes it does. Feel free to start a new thread, rather than digging up an ancient one.