So, it’s much easier to locate created characters if they are in alphabetical order by class. Specially for us players that have a tonne of characters but can’t remember the name’s of these characters
Eg I have 3 Saboteurs (one cold based, one fire based, one elemental based) instead of trying to find them by their corresponding name I can just scroll down to where my Saboteurs are located and boom there they all are.
So characters would appear like this
Arcanist - character name
Blademaster - character name
Conjuror - character name
Elementalist - character name
Elementalist - character name
Saboteur - character name
Vindidcator - character name
This is a good idea. I think a button that switches between alphabetical and mastery sorting would be helpful. Or a filter option that only shows characters of certain masteries.
But until this happens there’s a relatively easy workaround, you can sort your characters by colorizing their names with GDstash.
Here’s how:
If GD is running, close it
Start GDstash, make sure char editing is allowed
In the Char Editor, select a character (click the Reload button to make sure the character’s name is correctly loaded)
Add {^X} in front of the characters name, X being the letter corresponding to the color you want. For example, {^C} is cyan, {^G} is green, {^K} is khaki. A list of available color codes can be found in the Rainbow Filter config tool or here. Just make sure the color code is inside curly brackets, and the actual name is outside, like this:
Save the character (click Reload again to make sure it was saved correctly) and repeat the steps with the next one
This way you can easily group characters together. Alphabetical sorting still applies to names within each color group.
In-game the character list will look like this:
I’ve been using this method for years and it helped me tremendously with organizing my characters and quickly finding the ones I want to play with. For the FoA playtest I removed all chars that aren’t berserkers but I usually have almost 120 in the list, so some way of sorting them became a necessity at some point and color sorting not only made it easy, it also looks pretty cool.
I sorted all my characters by damage type but of course you can make up your own sorting convention, you only have to remember which color means what.
If you want to use this method to sort by mastery combos you’ll probably run out of colors at some point, but you can make multi-colored names, for example {^X}FirstName {^Y}LastName where X is the color for the 1st mastery and Y for the 2nd.
You could even add another color for the build archetype or damage type or whatever you want it sorted by. Just be aware that character names have a limited length and each color code reduces it by 4, so you can’t squeeze too many color codes into long names.
Yeah it would be great to have an ingame option for colorizing names.
Sadly you can’t add color codes into the name when creating a new character, the in-game interface doesn’t allow symbols like the caret and brackets, you can’t even use copy-paste so GDstash is required.
Personally I just create the name to what the mod & class is like “Dom OccNec”. Saves me alot of trouble finding which char goes to what mod & what class they are. & it groups the chars for that mod together.
I like the idea of being able to color the names tx for sharing that.
But on another note the one thing Ive always wanted is to to be able to hard lock a char to a specific mod. Ive ruined more then 1 char because ive gone into the wrong mod with them. Even when Im careful I can misclick.
