[Feedback] Change Log 08/23/2016

[Gwalben]

I find the renaming to work fine, and I forced them to the top of sort by name by beginning their names with a number (starting with a 0 is even better so that they appear above 1 Premium Day), but the special characters suggestion is a good idea as well. I've got no problem renaming my jolly geologists 01 Jolly Geologist or ! Jolly Geologist. I don't really care how my generals appear, as long as they appear below the stuff I actually pull from the star regularly.

But I still go back to how I don't really like the default sort and want it to remember that I want to sort by name. Although the unstackable adventures still clutter up 90% of my star and float to the bottom on a default search, so it still seems to work pretty okay anyway.

[Raubhautz]

I just added 01. in front of majors names, 02. for MMAs, 03. for Veterans and so on.
Same for explorers.
Not very complicated, just a lot of clicks. [...]

Yes, I agree that this is a wonderful workaround, it should be like all things that require workarounds.... temporary. In my case, all of my specialists are already named, some with sufficiently long names that no more characters can be added. I don't think I should have to be punished for a supposed improvement, that's all.

[KingHomer]

sighs, heres some things ive noticed to be annoying

- specialists order is all messed up
- mini quests (pandas, weddings...) are on 1 tab, but the buffs for them are on another, please move the cakes and cages to the misc tab

Workaround for weddings - go to main star menu (lol - the star under star menu) and type "wed" in the search window. Not ideal, but does get them both on one screen.

[Perwyn]

Workaround for panda = type panda|cage and both will show up

[Ceruhe]

Am I the only one that wants to know what the criteria is for "Default"?
I would've assumed (but well, I did know better, so no surprises here) it simply would've retained the order from the old star menu, aka specialists first followed by buffs, adventures, buildings, misc or whatever it is, aka "keeping it familiar", yet they could rename Default to Random and it would already make that much more sense than now.

[Ciara_Belle]

The catapults, assassins and such are now in the misc tab instead of buffs. Maybe they are there instead?

checked there

[Evil_J]

gotta love all these workarounds for problems that shouldnt even exist ahah
i like doing pandas and weddingss together, so this search on the 'all' tab works: wed|pan|cag

[Raubhautz]

ROFL!

True definition of 'Gerry-Rigged'! Love it.

[Raubhautz]

Am I the only one that wants to know what the criteria is for "Default"? [...]

Nope. That is my question/issue as well. One would think that default would allow the order(s) to be the same as before the update.... Though not perfect, I'd much rather the old system than this one -- at least for the Specialists tab. The other tabs are workable.

[Perwyn]

There was a point several years ago where BB wanted us to test something specific and loaded copies of our actual islands onto the test server. I don't remember what we were testing, but it was great to have our own setups to use.

There are cases, such as this current star menu fiasco, that would justify them doing that again. If we would have had our own specialists in star we could have pointed out that default was wrong, but who knew what was going on given the crappy testing setup we were asked to work with. Granted, there's always the chance that even with our own setups, and even with us pointing out default didn't work, we'd still have the current mess going on.

I completely understand the frustration that default is not what the old star menu sort was. I'm not frustrated, as many are, since I welcomed the chance to sort by name and get my specialists in the exact order I wanted them in.

But I will never understand BB's programming/testing procedures/outcomes. It seems like it's Standard Operating Procedure for them to let people get frustrated, angry and possibly quit playing rather than putting some effort into getting things right prior to release. I imagine at some point we'll get a patch release that fixes the default order in star. And we're all supposed to be OK with that. Nice business model.