Now that they are dropping characters from recruit pools it would be pretty great if they could order the characters in the recruit info section by newest to oldest. Then I’d know which 4
was next to disappear without having to find a list some place.
currently the chars are sorted Level, then by power tier, then by alphabet name.
doing what you asks requires someone to go in label additional meta deta for every single char. Then they will need to implement a new filter system to make it looks consistent with how its currently displayed. Honestly why bother?
I wish they ordered it that way in the tool tip for the packs if that’s what you mean. It would also be nice if they highlighted who’s leaving next time the pack get’s update. I’m not holding my breath on either though, they are still trying to figure out how to fix much bigger issues with the system.
I say bother because I prefer to know in-game what is upcoming. I know for example in a few weeks HawkGuy is going to replace some character in the 3* rewards category. I don’t know who that will be unless I do google searchs.
Also, I don’t subscribe to that’s more work as an excuse. Things take effort that being true shouldn’t be an excuse to not do it.
Because it’s a trivial amount of work and it conveys useful information for in-game decision making?
Seriously, I will eat my hat (and yours) if their base character DB doesn’t have creationDate or liveDate as a field. Copying that field over to the in-game character list and updating the sort criteria for that page is what, 30 minutes of work? An hour if you include QA?
“implement a new filter system”… Honestly, it’s updating a sort statement, not decoding the Matrix.
EDIT - just to be clear, then OP was requesting this re-ordered list on the Recruit Heroes list, not the roster list. That’s the list you get when you hit the question mark on the heroic, latest legends or classic legends token page. Your statement about being sorted by level and then tier and then name means you are not referring to that page, as it doesn’t mix tiers at all, nor does it show level (how could it?).
For all the reasons you list. This change would make things harder for Demiurge. It would require additional bug testing each patch, which they don’t do. It would result in more problems. And those lower customer satisfaction.
Those are the sort of issues that actually make Demiurge stop and say “well this just isn’t worth it” and that’s when they’ll look at replacing the system.
The three-star characters aren’t in chronological order. Strange and Thanos is in there, but the last three-star releases before them were Vision and Quicksilver who aren’t in the pool. If I were to venture a guess I’d say Squirrel Girl will be kicked out to make room for Hawkguy.
You aren’t even talking about the same thing as the OP. He’s talking about the info page, where you click the ? to see who’s in a token. Put those 12 in order, bottom right is always the next one to leave, it’s useful information.
They don’t have to do something for every single character, because they’re literally only working with a pool of 12 at a time, displayed in a static location, that only changes once a month.
Yeah, I was for 10 years before I went back to school for engineering. Why do you ask?
It’s simply not a complex task. The list is already sorted, so there is a sort being applied at some level - as a database call to write to a static array (probable), as a sort directly applied to an array in the app (unlikely since it doesn’t change between patches) or something ludicrous like sorting the entire character list in a spreadsheet to cut and paste the top 12 into a configuration section (you’d be surprised at how high the odds are of that one).
Regardless, vaulting was just implemented a few weeks ago - it’s not like the dev who coded that sort is going to have to go hunting to find out how to alter it. Thirty minutes is about right.
Granted, it might take you longer, since you would have spent a few hours sorting the roster page and updating the UI for that section instead.
EDIT - “array” is used as a generic term here for any array-like object. The basic methodology is the same, regardless of the specific container being used.
EDIT 2 - I’ll confess to being a bit biased here, as I suggested the same thing a couple of weeks ago.
Q: Why champion characters if they are going to be rotated out? I mean unless you’re stock-piling for 5*'s, what’s the max level you could get them now? +10-20 levels before they are rotated out and you’ll see very few covers for them ever again?
Even if you are stock piling, when you blow your stash you’ll have a slice of time, 12 characters, that if you champion them, you’ll have them higher than other people. People who don’t stockpile could have all future characters at max level + 10 or 20. So what? WIth the characters vaulted, there doesn’t seem to be much point to champions