mods Category Column should match Category Tree

[orangemountain]

I've found this debate posted many times since Vortex Alpha was released. Users transitioning from Mod Organizer to Vortex want to list mods in a particular order to help organize a large collection. And I'm definitely one of those, my FO4 profile for MO2 had about 3000 folders, Skyrim had 5000+. Scrolling through the whole list to find one mod is painful, and resolving many mods that need to load just so is more so. Wrapping your head around it all becomes a point of defeating your mod manager.

 

I gather that Vortex developers don't want to add such a feature bc that isn't how Vortex works, how it loads mods. Including it for purely cosmetic reasons would confuse and mislead users into thinking they're actually reordering mods by moving them around the screen, when they should be setting rules, priorities, or dependencies.

 

Why not change how mods are listed when the category column is selected to match the category tree? Currently categories list alphabetically, and mods within a category by no order I can discern. Not helpful. Like, at all.

 

 

As a side not, I'd like to say that the Vortex UI is still a bit cumbersome, and slow, and even occasionally hair-pulling, but games play SO MUCH better than with MO or NMM. Great job. I really appreciate it and am patiently waiting for Vortex to mature.