I have just developed over 10 fleets now, and am now thinking the fleet screen could be more optimised. Currently it seems to sort by "availability time", but I would like the options to sort by fleet name (as I name mine with purpose) and by "total ships". I can see that sorting by danger rating, port and total cargo could also be useful options in certain circumstances.

PS: tried searching and couldnt find if this has been thought of before. Please forgive if this isnt the first time this has been suggested.

It has been suggested before but perhaps it is a good time to do such kind of improvements.

Your suggestions are de facto approved.
If you or anyone else think that more could be added to improve the same subject, please do so here. I will re-check in a couple of days in order to get it done.

Yes please! I would really like to sort by "Current port" except it would also sort by who is traveling to what port. So I could click on the "Current Port" words and it would show me all the ships docked at Kanoni, then all the ships travelling to Kanoni and then all ships docked at Baramas.... and so on.

Also a sort by ship level would be nice for those of us who switch trade routes on a routine basis trying to maximize profit.

Thought this through some more, and have some (mostly) easy to implement details that could make it even more useful.

In order of importance (in my mind anyway):

1) Add the ability to sort on the "Ship List" screen with the same method as the "Fleet List" screen.

2) For each column name in both lists (except, of course, "Actions", and maybe "#") have a small up triangle/arrow and a small down triangle/arrow to the right of the column name so you can choose to sort high-to-low or low-to-high.

3) "Travelling to PORTX" should be sorted as if it just read PORTX.

4) Make the sorting remember how you previously sorted so you can stack/prioritise your sorts like you can do in M$Excel.

#1 and #2 and #3 I see as vital. #4 is not vital, but a nice touch that could help those with huge armadas (Captain dungeness?)

Even with my small armada, choosing to sort high-to-low or low-to-high on both lists would be a huge boon. Off the top of my head, it would make it much easier and faster to find ships in a huge range of practical situations, eg: damaged ships (high-to-low), ships I might like to work on (low-to-high in level, crew, cannon, cargo), my most powerful ships (high-to-low in level), which fleets are most/least in danger (useful for a number of circumstances), fleets in a particular port, and fleets that only have 1 ship, etc etc etc...

In fact, it was just lucky right now that I found a damaged ship on the first page of the ship list. Giving that it only currently sorts by availability, I could have easily missed that one.

Captncrunch wrote:#1 and #2 and #3 I see as vital. #4 is not vital, but a nice touch that could help those with huge armadas (Captain dungeness?)

Yes please.

I am most interested in sorting the ship list by level. It's impossible to find a ship that has lost a level without looking through every fleet. Did you notice the "Ships" page is also ordered by arrival time? This means when I take say 5 minutes looking though the pages and half of my fleets arrived and departed, the list has rearranged itself part way through and I actually looked through the same half of my ships twice. If I can list my ships by level then I can see which ones have lost a level from a lost battle.

I'm more excited to see banks get added but this would be very helpful if it's not too hard to add.

-Captain D