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LuckyLuigi

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Sorting to preserve our sanity !
« on: September 30, 2010, 07:02:13 am »
Can lists be sorted alphabetically ? If there is no horrible programming behind the UI this should be a very easy fix.

I have 140 dwarves.
I want to add 'Axedwarf1' Urist mcConan 'Axedwarf' to my axedwarf squad.
This means I have to carefully check all 140 dwarfs in the assignments list to find and assing him.
I find that over 25 % of my time is spend paging trough lists looking for a certain dwarf (was 75 %, thank Amok for Dwarf Therapist)

Same for all other lists.

While we're at it :
A dwarf that is assigned to squad A should NOT be displayed in the list when you are selecting dwarves for squad B.
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Re: Sorting to preserve our sanity !
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2010, 07:13:46 am »
When adding dwarves to squads, there will be a note near the top of the screen if the select dwarf is already in a squad.
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Re: Sorting to preserve our sanity !
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2010, 08:05:15 am »
Sorting is a fine idea, but not showing dwarves already in squads seems like a step in the wrong direction. I had to fiddle around with my squad allocations after a migrant wave and a few Military Mothers giving birth, so being able to move a dwarf from one squad to another without having to first remove them and lose them in massive list of names is a good thing I feel. And yeah, as Smariot said, it tells you if a dwarf is in a squad already, so no need to select them if you don't want to.
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Re: Sorting to preserve our sanity !
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2010, 10:44:56 am »
Yes please make one master class to handle all listing UI functions. Then let us sort on fields. Sometimes I feel like I'm not playing but fighting with the UI code to do something that should be simple. In a game this complex, not everyone is going to take the simplest usecase to accomplish that task.

But I'm just hammering a dead elf here, eternal suggestions has something that covers this.
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