Player Features and Ideas Discussion

... in Roman numerals.

For instance, if you are looking at planets in your overview (or moons around planets) and sort by "name" to order them sequentially, what happens instead is the following:

system I
system II
system III
system IV
system IX
system V
system VI
system VII
system VIII
system X
system XI

where "system" is the name of the system you happen to be in. The correct order should be:

system I
system II
system III
system IV
system V
system VI
system VII
system VIII
system IX
system X
system XI

A minor thing, but fairly easy to fix.

No kidding. However, the planets should be sorted by their number from the star rather than some bizarre alphabetical counting of Roman numerals. The purpose of ordinal numbers is to order things by number.

Either Eve should create another column to order the planets by their location from the sun (more problematic), or fix the way it "counts" the planets.

You are right, and what you are right about is exactly what the OP is complaining about: EVE sorts ordinals represented as roman numerals as a string sorted lexicographically rather than treating string representations of roman numerals as the ordinal being represented.

The string "Prism X" contains two elements: the first is the system name "Prism", the second is the ordinal position of that planet in the system, with orbits numbered from innermost at 1, incrementing outwards to 10 represented in this case by X. Thus an overview sorting by name should actually be sorting planets (and moons) by two columns "system name" and "orbit number".

A simpler fix would be to drop the Roman numerals all together and just go with:

System 1
System 2
System 3
etc.

Then the alphabetizing of the "Name" column works out correctly.

But we can fix this!!!!!

System 00000001
System 00000002
System 00000003
System 00000010

It will TOTALLY work.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Clearly, something as basic and idiotic as this programming 101 problem has baffled the great minds at CCP.

No solution can be found. Give up now.

Everyone knows the truly intelligent are never quite well based in their sanity. So either EVE is full of the biggest trolling 12 year olds, or it holds the likes of Tesla, Einstein, Plato, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, The Mittani, Tokugawa Ieyasu, or Confucius.

Why do people always have to single out Confucius?? Is a puzzlement!!

Imagine you discover a new solar system.

You name the planets

Nesosy I
Nesosy II
Nesosy III
Nesosy IV
Nesosy V

After settlers arrive on Nesosy IV they rename it to "Home"
now its:

Nesosy I
Nesosy II
Nesosy III
Home
Nesosy V

Stupid idea to sort planets by name
on the other hand its already a stupid idea to show navigation targets and weapon targets in the same column
the problem is placed much deeper in design

op must have ocd, this never really bothered me.