Why did we change the way the Character Selection screen sorts?

The profanity I would use to explain my feelings on this thread would no doubt get me into trouble. But I can tell you, that at the end of this theoretical profanity laced tirade I would be laughing my *** off.

If this is your biggest issue with the game, then please celebrate in whatever manner you choose. You have won.

At the time, I thought the old way, (alphabetical, but last played character out of order at the top) was possibly the worst possible way they could have done it. Should have just been alphabetical, with last played character selected by default. Page turned as neccessary.

They managed to prove me wrong. The new way is worse.


I'm a crafter. Now when I want to cycle through my characters, I *always* have to change to the last page to get to the last one used. ALWAYS. Additionally, when I'm not just cycling through characters, but actually want to pick a specific one to craft a specific thing, there's no real rhyme or reason to where in the list that character is. My artificer could be anywhere in that list.

Only thing this new sort helps with are players with a small set of characters they actually use, and I'd expect said players don't have lots of characters to begin with, so the way they get sorted probably doesn't much matter.

Agree with the OP.

I'm a hyper-organized type and would prefer some options on sorting your active characters. I'd like ALL the characters to be on one page, smaller sized images or double-columned, what ever works.

Not at all game-breaking or even majorly annoying, but it would be a helpful feature.

I takes all kinds, I guess. Don't let anyone tell you you're wrong for caring about something. Haters gonna hate.

Actually, they have monkeyed with the character select screen quite a bit more than most games do. They want to make a good first impression, I guess? Seems an odd thing to prioritize, though.

Not to be rude but.....do you live under a rock? This is the way it has been.

Seriously? Because the list is so massive that the characters are hard to keep track of or get lost? I, for one, much prefer this new method, as the characters that I don't play much finally get shoved to the bottom of the list.

Actually, it worked out quite nicely for me. It moved all my Imperial characters to once side, and all my republicans to the other. I'm a *happykittyface* chic atm.

No, it hasn't.

Until the recent patch it sorted last played first then alphabetical.

I think maybe it's you that has been living under a rock, in a damp cave, in the butt crack of a troll.

But it probably looks that way to a F2P player who has only 2 characters on the server.