Allow alphabetizing of created characters by class instead of by name

Grim Dawn Ideas and Feedback
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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:
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  • 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:
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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.

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