Adding sort/filter string to database lists

Would you like this feature?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 100.0%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes but not important

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    4

Andar

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Description of the Feature:
A lot of people have been asking for the option to sort the database and change the IDs of anything there.
However, because the entire engine is ID-Based, that is NOT easy to implement - not even with the suggestion of refactoring the ID-count, because there are too many direct ID-assignements in the corescript or in plugins (starting with the fact that the attack skill is always the skill with ID=1, that prevents easy refactoring the skill-IDs as an example).

So I suggest an alternative approach that should bypass those implementation problems:
Add a new string to each database list that is completely ignored by the engine, but allows filtering or sorting in the editor.
Besides a new field for it on every list tab it would need a button to change the list itself from ID-Based to the new string and back, and buttons for sorting on the new values/strings




Why is this feature good?
  • allows for custom sorting on the new string in whatever way the user wants
  • does not mess with the IDs like the other suggestions

Possible issues with this feature?
  • Still a lot work and a change to the json files required, just not as much problems as trying to do the same with the IDs
 

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