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

I vastly prefer the new method. That said, I totally appreciate where the OP is coming from.

This is something that it amazes BW hasn't figured out after a year of post launch development for this game. You have to do your best to accomodate both the people that want the change as well as those that don't. Putting in a feature like this, it ought to be obvious that allowing you the option of how to sort would be the least intrusive.

And honestly, this same lack of foresight is why people are complaining about the new looks. BW seems to run head long into the most obvious issues.

I support the idea of having multiple sorting options (including a manual one).

But if we're stuck with just one, I definitely prefer the new one. It makes sense to have the characters I currently play at the top.

I am glad they changed it, new method is more to my taste.

You assume I don't play them at all, AND you assume that I don't have a use for them (some of them are mat farmers and extra bank space for my gear hoarding). But the fact is there are several that I use more often then not and having the ones I use most often populating the first 4 or 5 slots in the character select screen saves the inevitable having to keep jumping to a second or on one server 3rd page to constantly retrieve the ones I use most. Now Im glad for you that you choose a naming scheme that puts your most used towards the front of the line, I however tend to use names that typically have some referential significance. My main on the one server, an Operative named Strichnine for example, having a double entandra type allusion to it in the form of Strichnine being a very deadly poison and my DPS based Operative being deadly but also with the story arc naming of your Agent as Cipher Nine there is the obvious nine reference in my toons name. But by the old system they had I was forever having to continually switch pages to get back to my main.

I will agree however with the suggestion of allowing us to move our slots and place them where we see fit and would gladly accept its implementation with open arms, but until such time as that would be implemented then it would seem that the majority by percentage of posters here prefer the new system.

I had no idea the game was supposed to have any sort of sorting feature in the toon list at all...that list has been randomly rearranged every time i've logged in since the game launched.

Same thing. I can never remember that there was an order in it. It always topped the one I last played.

As stated several times, it used to work as follows:

Last played "out of order" at top. Rest of them in alphabetical order.

What's so hard about giving us a "Sort by" pull down?

Sort by...
Last Played
Alphabetical
Class
Faction
etc etc etc...

I personally feel like there was not enough "Play" buttons added in last patch. Bioware you ought to make at least 3 more for each char!

And make switching between them via keyboard possible at last. You know, with arrows and all.

I support this, as well as the option to manually order the characters like CoX did.