Allow for reordering of colonists' bar

[tukkek]

As the title says, it would be great if we could simply drag-and-drop with the mouse to decide for ourselves what order we want colonists to be in. Everyone would find different uses for it - not only in general but on a moment-to-moment basis too depending on what's happening in the game. Doesn't sound like a very hard thing to implement either?

EDIT apparently there's a mod that allows that. Even then would be a great addition to the base game http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729908976

[Toast]

I'd love this. A low-priority QOL thing, but it would make me happy if I could group my couples on the bar so when I move beds around I can easily reassign them properly, place people who hate each other on the opposite sides of the bar to remember to keep their schedules unsynced, etc.

[erdrik]

+1

[tukkek]

Definitely low priority - but considering it should be simple enough to program, it really feels like it's "missing" from the game right now. I mean, I just expected to have it out-of-the-box.

Once a basic version of this is done it would be great to iterate upon as well - maybe have the ability to hide some colonists if you feel like you need to, or make their icons smaller in order to occupy less space on the screen, etc. Anyway, that's for future talk and community feedback.

[erdrik]

Oh, also make the colony bar's depth order above that of the event messages at the top left of the screen.
I occasionally get a message that is long enough to cover the first colonist on the list and annoyingly prevents me from selecting that colonist. It forces me to either manually find the colonist, or wait until the message times out.

[tukkek]

Well, messages are only a temporary thing and it's also much more important to be able to read them (which you can't if they're behind the colonist bar) than for you to lose access for a few seconds to your bar... You should probably think of another solution to this issue because hiding the messages behind the bar (thus making them unreadable) is not ok.

[erdrik]

Well how about moving messages below the colonist bar then?
Frankly, I usually need to pay attention to those messages less often than I use the bar.

[Draconicrose]

I like this idea too! Maybe with a lock/unlock toggle so that we don't accidentally reorder our pawns.

[Vlad0mi3r]

Sounds really good to me as well as the lock, unlock bar.

The messages that come up over the colonist bar can be frustrating. "Yes I know Ray needs medical attention if I could just click on the Doc I would get that fixed up right away". Moving it below them would be great.

[homemdosgalos]

+1, it would be great. It's very annoying to have a defined order, and worse, if the colonist leaves (imprisoned, for instance), you can't switch him back in order.

I need this 

[protocol47]

+1. It would be great to sort all the soldiers to one side, and all the pacifists to the other. I'd help a lot when setting up for a raid, especially if you end out with a lot of pawns.