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Allow Personalized Sorting Of Items In Dropdowns

Allow Personalized Sorting Of Items In Dropdowns
Posted 2020-11-24 20:39:07

I've been playing the game a bit now and I've got to say. While it has a few quirks that are frustrating, nothing irritates me more than the fact I can't choose how dropdown menus are sorted. 

First, we have the feeding dropdown. Yes, it's great that the soonest to expire is at the top of the list. It's handy to make sure your wolves rotate the stock of the hoard...BUT. 

The fact that using an item with [x] uses is used first based on expiry date but when you go to feed another wolf items with the same expiry date but higher total uses is now first. It's incredibly frustrating. The item I used should be in the same position, regardless of uses left on the food item. This is really apparent if you have lots of food items of the same type expiring on the same day that have more than 2 total uses.

Example: You feed wolf A two uses of  food X with 4 total uses. It now has 2 uses left. Instead of staying where it was positioned in the queue, it is now replaced with food Y  which expires on the same day and has more total uses left. So now you're using a totally new food item, often with full uses, to feed wolf B. This makes finishing off carcasses or other foods that are set to expire with a group of other things tedious as I have to open the drop down, find the one I used last, and select it. 

How this could be fixed is to allow users to sort their dropdown ranges in certain configurations OR to have code allow us to use the most recently used item again on another animal. Expiring soonest still in place, allow users to choose HIGHEST total uses left of each item type or LOWEST total uses of each item type be first in the "feed" dropdown.

As far as things are now, it's somewhat hard to parse uses left, days until the item starts to rot, etc. because there's no visual difference in an item I picked up just before feeding my wolf and one that is going to rot on rollover. Especially when I have LOTS of items in that drop down. It's an overload of text and numbers that I often put off dealing with until I can't avoid feeding my wolf for the day anymore. 

Visual updates to how dropdown function aside, sorting things in other fashions (either determined by Wolvden Devs or made custom by the user themselves) would be greatly appreciated. 

The Reaper 45
#14983

Posted 2020-11-24 21:35:58

Yeah, having some kind of sorting options would be nice.


Nika
#10475

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