Realms Arrangement of characters on loginscreen

[Liep]

Just a minor QoL change i dont imagine would take much, nor change the game overall;
- The ability to move characters up and down in priority on the loginscreen.

Personally, I like to have some order in my characters :)

Thank you for reading.

[Obnoxious]

Suggested many times before.
The WotLK client (and earlier ones) doesn't offer it, it's hard-coded like that.

[Breadqt]

what happens when you buy a character on the store? does it go to the bottom of your character list?

isnt that a way to re-organise a character list?

what does "hard-coded" mean?

[wadwwqw]

Correct me if I'm wrong but when you buy a character from the store it gets arranged by creation date. Meaning if the bought char was made before your current chars, it gets at top, in between, if it was created between your chars and so on.

[Obnoxious]

Correct me if I'm wrong but when you buy a character from the store it gets arranged by creation date. Meaning if the bought char was made before your current chars, it gets at top, in between, if it was created between your chars and so on.

I'm pretty sure you're correct, they get all arranged by creation date by the client and there's no database field to store a character order in the older expansions (and a custom one wouldn't be read by the client), from my understanding.

[ChefZuggy]

So a website service to change creation dates could do it but that's probably too much of a hassle.

[Obnoxious]

So a website service to change creation dates could do it but that's probably too much of a hassle.

If you want to get specific, it's likely ordered by the incremental unique identifier assigned to each character's database entry, not by the date itself, and you don't mess with unique IDs. Even if I'm mistaken and it does use a date entry for some reason (it's Blizzard after all), that would create inconsistencies that aren't worth the trouble (like a character that was "created" years after its achievements, for example).

[Shred]

The character list is sent from the server to the client ordered by guid, which is the internal id of the character. Since character ids are never reused that is the same as ordering by creation date. I suppose you can send the characters in any other order and the client will display the characters in the order they were received.

It really is a lot of work to do something like this and I don't think we'll see it, although it would be nice to have.