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Contracts and the changed search

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HunterHH
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-04-01 08:23:08 UTC  |  Edited by: HunterHH
I just experienced a little thingy that is a bit annoying.

I made a contract to another character in game (how wise) and added his name to the private field.
As his Char name is only 4 characters long, the search result included 500 names.
Not really a big issue, but adding a space behind his name didn't change the result, it just was ignored.
I'm not a fan of scrolling down in a 500 names list to find the right one... so i thought i click on a name and enter his name via keyboard.. like in the corp member listing. But nothing happened there.

It might be just a bug or a feature, but i think ccp can make this little annoying thing better.
Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#2 - 2012-04-01 13:45:39 UTC
not just that...

Say I know the exact name of someone, for example "Entity". I want to send him money.
Ok I search for him.... WHOAH 195 results.
Okay let's try "Limit search to exact term"... 161 characters...


Are you kidding me? I know the exact name. why is it forcing me to go through an unsorted list to find the one I need?

Useless search is useless. Evil

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Ydnari
Estrale Frontiers
#3 - 2012-04-01 19:46:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Ydnari
Also now stations have started disappearing from the courier contract "Ship To" list; it no longer seems possible to ship to "Pemene VI - Moon 10 - Wiyrkomi Corporation Factory" - searches only come up with the other station, "Pemene VI - Moon 2 - Wiyrkomi Corporation Factory".

Same with the People and Places search, can't set autopilot there either.

(bug reported, ID 131853)

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Bo Deepzone
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-04-13 20:17:31 UTC
I find the new search function pretty interesting, but when creating a private contract, getting 500 results when you type a unique player name makes no sense.

If CCP decides that functionality is key - or needed for other searches in the game - then can we at least get a check against the Peope and Places directory and have any matching entries show up at the top? That way, characters you often interact with or set up contracts with will be found easily.

Issue : unique names are not returned as priority match on top
Suggestions :

1. unique name? --> move to top of the list of search results
2. partial match in people and places? --> move to top of the list of search results
3. member of your corp? --> move to top of the list of search results

Thanks.
CCP Ronin
C C P
C C P Alliance
#5 - 2012-04-14 21:07:31 UTC
Hey all, just chiming in to let you know that we are aware of these issues and they're being looked at. The People and Places search should now be fixed to show the most-relevant entries (including exact matches) at the top of the list. This change went out in Crucible 1.6.4 on April 4th.

It's also the case that some windows, including auto-completion in chat and the contract search (I think), are automatically alphabetizing the entire result set list, regardless of relevancy, so we'll also be revisiting those cases for either Escalation or Inferno to make sure that most relevant entries go to the tops of those lists as well.

CCP Ronin Senior Programmer -- Internationalization