Recognized Simple Suggestion - Date sorting for blueprints

[Benevolent27]

The title basically says it. I think it'd be useful to have a "date" column for blueprints. This would enable sorting from earliest to latest or vice versa. It would also allow us to see when the blueprint was created (or uploaded to a server).

The reason for this is that as I grow my collection of blueprints, it's become harder to manage them. If I could sort by date, then I could work with all the latest blueprints I've created easily.

 

[kiraen]

Agreed. Also,

Read by Council - Better Blueprint Sorting
Blueprint sorting

 

[jgames666]

This actually wouldn't be a bad idea. This is also something that should be very easy to implement.

 

[Lord_Greyscale]

An excellent idea, once the devs solve the minor problem of all blueprints showing their creation date as December 31, 1969 at 6:00 PM

This is extra annoying, as the OS (Windows, OS/X, Linux, ect) correctly records both the date and time a blueprint was made, but somehow StarMade isn't doing so.

EDIT: And I've just realized why StarMade isn't doing so.
It's checking the SMENT file between the OS Header/Footer, and "creation date" isn't a set field in there.
The easy solution is re-coding that one part of the game to read the OS header/footer looking for the Timestamp, but I think that's a little different for each OS.

 

[Benevolent27]

An excellent idea, once the devs solve the minor problem of all blueprints showing their creation date as December 31, 1969 at 6:00 PM

This is extra annoying, as the OS (Windows, OS/X, Linux, ect) correctly records both the date and time a blueprint was made, but somehow StarMade isn't doing so.

EDIT: And I've just realized why StarMade isn't doing so.
It's checking the SMENT file between the OS Header/Footer, and "creation date" isn't a set field in there.
The easy solution is re-coding that one part of the game to read the OS header/footer looking for the Timestamp, but I think that's a little different for each OS.

Hmm, interesting to know!