View Full Version : The star menu: It hurts! it's cumbersome, too difficult to use; Text search filter?!
Eugh, my star menu is becoming a pain point in the game and those few tabs just don't filter things down enough.
Items don't stack into anything more than 25 and loads of items remain as singles making scrolling to find something very cumbersome.
(I have seen stack combining suggested but it seems it might be complex to implement since it involves changing the item stack data)
I can't see that this hasn't been suggested yet so here are some more words to explain:
Once opening the star menu, I would like to see a text search box where i can type a few letters or a word to filter the list in star down to items with those letters. No need to fumble around with scrolling through the vast number of items.
It should be simple enough to implement since it is limited to the user interface and it would work in a very similar way to how the Trade window already works when searching for items to buy/sell by text.
I hope to see something like this soon, and/or any other usability fix for managing lots of items in the star menu
Ozzymandeus
14.12.14, 03:04
+1
Couldn't it be possible to get a searchtab for the starmenu, am pretty tired of spending minutes on finding adv. and other stuff I need in there? :confused:
unicornlinzy1
14.12.14, 14:18
+1000
Gammelbold
14.07.15, 17:27
I think it might be a good idea to be able to search on a specific name of an adventure in Star Menu--> Misc. Looking through them all everytime i need to find a perticular adventure can be rather tiresome. and I bet there are players out there who have more adventures in their starmenu then i do.
Sincerely
GB
Mortallicus
14.07.15, 19:09
+1 its much needed
I don't know if this would be possible but.... (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/30747-I-don-t-know-if-this-would-be-possible-but....)
search option in the star menu. (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/25481-search-option-in-the-star-menu.)
The star menu: It hurts! it's cumbersome, too difficult to use; Text search filter?! (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/29878-The-star-menu-It-hurts!-it-s-cumbersome-too-difficult-to-use-Text-search-filter-!)
(I have seen stack combining suggested but it seems it might be complex to implement since it involves changing the item stack data)
x=25 >>>> x = 150 ye can see how hard that would be to implement, apart from the stack thing, ye bang on suggestions, lets hope bb do something soon :)
Vrisitiggsy
14.07.15, 21:34
+1
HitmanPaul
15.07.15, 08:06
+1
Would be great, but I am also hoping that my 20 dama hammers, 30 or more Tomb raider adventures and other items that is not stacked gets stacked.
queen-vicious
15.07.15, 09:10
+1 for searchable star menu
+1 anything will do, searchable, stacked, more tabs.
i give +1 but who cares i guess :D
LordofEverything
15.07.15, 11:20
Can we have an extra tab in the star menu for "Useless Junk I Don't Want" like those cheese sandwiches and sandmans powder and the hundreds of horsemen statues we can't get rid of?
And can we have a thing we click to automatically move these items to junk instead of clogging up our star menu?
+1 incl. a searchfield for star would be more than awesome
+1 incl. a searchfield for star would be more than awesome
Agree with you :)
+1 A searchable star menu with stackable buffs would be great
+1 Search in starmeny...awesom idea :) Me like very very very much :)
Wulfmeister
16.07.15, 07:12
I'd be happy if the thing were just in some sort of logical sequence.
Such as:
Buffs in alphabetic order, with the lowest count first so we can clear out odd ones without hunting for 10 minutes;
Adventures in alphabetic order would be good too - the sequence at the moment has no logic:
Horseback - Wild Mary - Arctic Explosion - Tropical Sun - Outlaws (I missed some out, but that sequence is what I have)
+1
If it's not possible or reasonable to change the code so that we could control the order and the stacks, at least group by type and then alphabetical would be helpful. Same goes for generals (instead of order acquired within type).
How about a tab in the star menu for our "favourites", for which we can create rules for which items appearing there from the other tabs?
+1 to the original suggestion too!
lordloocan
28.07.15, 09:26
I would be wary of asking for too much re the star menu, after all it would be very easy for BB to make it no longer able to store excess resources so we didn't have to search through all that 'clutter'.
Hello,
Please consider this change in future to merge all buff in one icon doesnt matter its rainbow or feast buff but please do something about that. I just calculated got 525 lines in star menu in buff page its 3150 icons of buffs. Its getting really hard to find buff i need ...
been mentioned many times b4, lets all keep nagging till bb sorts it out. all the code is there already all they need to do is change the stack size. c'mon bb, easy fix and will make e1 happy!
was like looking 3 pages couldnt find it so posted new one :)
P.S. it could be so simple as merging my post with this one :D
+1
good idea, but first get the game running smoothly. it's freezing for a few seconds from time to time, really annoying. next to last maintenace's fault
BAAAHHHHHJJJAAA
31.07.15, 13:34
I don't know how many times this has to be asked before BB do something about it.
topgearfan
31.07.15, 15:22
I just calculated got 525 lines in star menu in buff page its 3150 icons of buffs. Its getting really hard to find buff i need ...
try 525 pages! im sure im not even close to record. anything less than 4 pages long can be hard to find.. i once looked for something for 15 minutes cause didnt know between what it was..
I don't know how many times I've posted and I've seen others post on the same subject but I'll jump in again...
there must be a way to allow us to organize the star menu somehow.
They have done it in the menu on ANNO online and that's made by the same company (I think) so maybe all that need to do is go next door and ask nicly for the code :D
im sure it has been mentioned again, but here it goes.
i have dozens and dozens of buffs of quantity 1.
say harvest rituals etc.
these all should be able to be stackable.
same goes for resources too, although refills is a different story. (but why not, since with a null trade they can be divided again)
our star menu now is endless and chaotic after 3-4 years.
http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/29878-The-star-menu-It-hurts!-it-s-cumbersome-too-difficult-to-use
Threads merged: "stack buffs, resources etc", "The star menu: It hurts! it's cumbersome, too difficult to use; Text search filter?!"
I remember requesting same thing on other TSO forum like two years ago, with linkings to the threads about same thing that would go way more back into past on DE forums. This is just one of the biggest pain in the game and with addition of loot to star/storage selection this has become urgent.
Since i couldnt find mentioned post, i will repost google-translated thing about star menu items from BB representative from January 2015
There are things that just do not go without a substantial redesign of the base game functions such as loading generals mentioned here from the stars or merging objects in the star. For them not to say that it is 100% never happen, but I do not look too promising.
+1 for a search filter.
Also, please make cheese sandwich buffs, sandman powder and solar flares delete-able. I keep getting sandman powder from my explorers, but last time I tried to use them up, it just made people cross.
+1 for a search filter.
Also, please make cheese sandwich buffs, sandman powder and solar flares delete-able. I keep getting sandman powder from my explorers, but last time I tried to use them up, it just made people cross.
At a minimum, any buff or adventure should be able to be deleted. That should be completely up to the player whether to use it, try to trade/sell it or simply dispose of it. And I would find it hard to believe that would require a major code change because many items can already be deleted.
Vrisitiggsy
18.08.15, 17:51
I thought this was included in the new 50-75 level update?
Making new bugs seems to be much more interesting than to fix old ones :p
Sorry if I am sarcastic. But the same issues pop up again and again and again. Only thing that seems to be done is that the new people rasing old issue again is told that the tread is already here. It might maybe be because those issues are annoying to many players.
Vrisitiggsy
18.08.15, 18:39
I know the bugs are annoying, and they should be fixed, but if you want new stuff you will get bugs. Settlers is a huge cumbersome program, and it's impossible at this level of complexity to avoid creating new bugs if - as everybody wants - you keep introducing new stuff.
I would be very glad if we could stack. Lets say 10 units of buffs together so we could send it one package , not one by one because it takes very long time and its killing for our mouses... I think that should be already invented in game :)
Judelientje
12.09.15, 22:12
http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/29878-The-star-menu-It-hurts!-it-s-cumbersome-too-difficult-to-use-Text-search-filter-!?highlight=stack+buffs
Just import in update this thing :D
Bluesavanah
14.09.15, 00:16
+1 for a search filter.
Also, please make cheese sandwich buffs, sandman powder and solar flares delete-able. I keep getting sandman powder from my explorers, but last time I tried to use them up, it just made people cross.
A simpler solution would be just remove them from the loot table, even a fish platter has more use.
+1 to searchable star.
All buffs should be delete-able. I can't see any reason why they are not.
Threads merged: "Join/stack same buffs,adv in one ", "The star menu: It hurts! it's cumbersome, too difficult to use; Text search filter?!"
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So now we will have really big problem with finding friends in our Friend List. When they all get different lvls it will unbelievably hard to find the one you looking. Right now i have ~500 friends and 90% is lvl50 so i still can find the one i need by Alphabeta but what will i do when they all be on diff lvl?
Another important thing i would like. i guess im not first posting it but then again if im not its a needed thing.
search functions just like when trading, shouldnt be to hard to implement so we dont have to scroll through millions of buffs just to find the right one or adventures or whatever for that matter.
thanks.
Post merged with original request
Another star menu suggestion - seeing 18 items per page (6x3) is not enough. Could the window be made bigger? A lot bigger?
Vrisitiggsy
16.10.15, 13:04
Another star menu suggestion - seeing 18 items per page (6x3) is not enough. Could the window be made bigger? A lot bigger?
+1
Vrisitiggsy
16.10.15, 13:05
So now we will have really big problem with finding friends in our Friend List. When they all get different lvls it will unbelievably hard to find the one you looking. Right now i have ~500 friends and 90% is lvl50 so i still can find the one i need by Alphabeta but what will i do when they all be on diff lvl?
I think this needs a new thread. It's nothing to do with the star menu
we really need the filter in the star menu
I'll echo the sentiment +1000 !
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