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Fleet Management Suggestion: Add ability to sort roster by handles

warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Just a small tidbit to help people that manage Fleet rosters. Cryptic, please add the ability to sort said roster by handles (i.e. Kirrok@STOgamer sorted together with BeardedRiker@STOgamer, etc) instead of what's currently ingame, i.e. character name. It's a PITA to track fleet player activity to weed out inactive players while not kicking out an active player's alt.

The ability to sort rosters by handles, to see ALL the characters the player has with the fleet would be immensely useful. The game already can tell us when was the last time the character was logged in, but grouping it all with @handle sorting this makes it all convenient, EASY.

I was once in a fleet where I had to manage rosters, weeding out long inactive players, but had to be super careful about kicking out an active player's alt, which I ended up doing a few times. This was when Delta Rising hit years ago and it's still a thing today. When you have a large fleet this can be a pain to do.
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  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    That's a good idea as it would make it easier to adjust ranks by account. Probably won't happen though because the work on cryptic's end isn't really worth their time.
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  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    Yep, such a feature would be a great help for fleet management.
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  • bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
    Throw my 2 cents in on this. YES!​​
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  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,175 Arc User
    edited June 2018
    Yes please :smile: This would be a real time saver and especially handy when dealing with alts.
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited June 2018
    Extra steps, but in the meantime...

    If you download the Fleet roster, @handles are their own column already, so if you load the file into your favorite spreadsheet, you can get exactly what you are looking for.

    That being said, since it obviously already IS it's own column in the database, adding it as a column ingame should be easy at least one step closer to achievable already, right?

    ETA: It didn't used to be it's own column, so I'd save the download as a "comma separated" doc, open it in a text editor, and replace all the @'s with commas. Import that into the spreadsheet, and PRESTO! I had a column I could sort by @handle with. :)
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  • mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    edited June 2018
    Our fleet takes the downloaded copy of our Fed and KDF fleets and puts it into a Google spreadsheet that sorts everyone's account name, totals their contributions to inform us when promotions are due, and counts number of accounts of each rank. I don't think it's permitted to link here because it has account names but I'd be happy to post the formulae if anyone wants them.

    To the OP... it is absurd that the requested feature isn't already in the in-game UI, but then there are many absurd things about STO's UI.
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