@krj12

Just wanted to say: thank you very much. This has satisfied my OCD during my campaigns in LW 2.

Wow, I see you added sort by Nickname to the WotC version. As I'm still playing LW2 I wish this version had that! (But beggars can't be choosers!)

Great Mod, thanx for bringing it to us!

Can you add sorting by last name and call sign?

I'm blind; sorry, thanks!

@Kalarian yeah, sorting goes by last/first regardless of display format.

see link at the top of the description for the WOTC version.

Does this work with WotC?

Sorting by name sorts by last name even if you display First_Last

@Krimson The special resistance heroes dont have a nationality, so that is to be expected. I just tried changing a Rookie to a Templar and cant reproduce your issue.

@Panderrific Check out the new WOTC version, you can now sort by class if desired.

It seems to not work with spark and resistance heroes. If you add one to the pool the nationality is not there, and if you change an existing character in the pool to that class, they get deleted completely.

can you add sort by class? would be nice for balancing out my pool

Hmm, good point, even if it didn't trigger it, I did check the integrity when my game wasn't launching which probably did trigger the download! Thanks man, appreciate the answer and that great QoL mod. Real hard to deal with large CP without it!

Check your XComEnhancedRecruitmentList.ini and see what the SORT_BY value is set to.
I recently changed the description, which *shouldnt* have triggered a re-download, but who knows.

Krj, a quick question, I've used your mod since day one of it coming out and it always worked fine but for some reason it stopped working yesterday for me, adding new characters to the bottom of the list instead of sorting them. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

The issue I was having was that it did nothing. However I found an easy fix. I simply had to enable it. I obviously jumped the gun posting I was having issues, but I guess that just says something about how much I really like this mod posting immediatly. Thank you for such a great mod! Working great! #organizationislife

Also working for me.

It still appears to be working for me. What kind of issues are you having?
Note: The yellow icon doesnt necessarily mean it will not work, it just means that it has detected that it was compiled for the original game.

I'll take a look.

Any Plans to update this for WOTC? Now that I can't use it I really miss it

I would love to have a button to see the next previous soldier of the pool, similar to the in game buttons. That would be awesome.

Like to see if you could sort by CLASS, but seems you had difficulties with this one

Finally I managed to get it working, after some edits and reloads. Thanks.

Not working here. Deleted all config files and only subscribed this mod, edited the ini file, but still characters are not sorted alphabetically.... FIRST-LAST / LAST-FIRST names order works fine... VERY STRANGE!!!

Is it possible to sort by first name, rather than last name?

never mind think i fixed it.. deleted my config folder and reinstalled the mod, and now it works

@ObelisDk Could you provide details? Any new mods since you installed this?

it is not working for me now :(

@3D Master: What krj12 says, but only take the stuff from "Steam" onwards as 100%, as the stuff before it is the location of your Steam-Library. (might differ, depending on where you installed it)

Should be somewhere under C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\268500\684900176

Even though I'm subscribed and played the game with it; I can't find the ini file anywhere.

Appears to still be working ok after the new Shen DLC.

huh, thanks, now i get it

look at the URL at the top of each mod page, you should see something like
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=684900176&tscn=1465656900 ,
The id=<some number> is the mod id number.
All mods go under 268500.

wha- how am i supposed to know the numbers?

No, look under Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\268500\684900176\Config

documents/mygames/xcom2/xcomgame/config, right? the only things under "XCOME..." is "Engine" and "Encyclopedia"...there's "LW_Toolbox" here tho...

@TheRyderShotgun no, should be there after subscribing.

do i have to run the game before the config file shows up?

Update 6/11/2016: Added INI options to control sorting and name format.

good luck.

It does save a timestamp, unfortunately it stores it as an unusable "readable" format, such
as May 8, 2016 - 5:50 PM. This could be parsed, if I make the assumption that no localization formatting is going on - i.e. different formatting occurring in Europe vs the US, which I cant.

I'm working on adding INI values for the name format and whether or not sorting occurs. Won't help with people who have already sorted unfortunately.

looking into it... if there's no date created field, then probably not

oh, wait, i get it, the way it's sorted is saved so it stays this way even after technically it sorts by date created.

even so, is there no way to re-sort it? i mean, it re-sorted once i downloaded this mod from date created to last name alphabetical, so there's a way, right?

then can i re-sort it and then save it over that?

From what I've seen, once it's sorted, it's saved that way.

great, for some reason, now it's stuck on sort my last name alphabetical order. how do i change it back to date created?

Can you make a version that's just the nationality and class, without putting the last names first and sort by last name?

I tried adding the new buttons, but there was a 10 second display before they rendered. Never could get it to display the text labels either. You're correct that there is some Flash magic going on in the background - which I know zilch about.

Custom GUI elements are certainly possible but it involves hacking the gfxFlash "structure & components" on top of creating a custom UC script that pulls the gimmicks for processing.
It's quite complex but somehow doable as proven by some other Mods that could exploit a few key principles.

Looks like the additional gui options are a no-go. I could add an INI value to turn ON/OFF sorting, however it appears that the list order is saved permanently on exit. Once the list is sorted once, it's sorted. Will continue research.