Marshall
The whole point of 724 is to make sure that cameos are sorted in the correct order, NOT to change the order to something nonsensical.
If you add 4 new buildings that are all the same tech level (because there are precious few of those) and the same cost (because they are all the same usefulness), how do you make sure they appear in the correct order? For example, you may have special power 1-A, 1-B, 2-A and 2-B. Using PrerequisiteNegative, the player can pick either the two 1's or the two 2's or the two A's or the two B's, but they aren't allowed to pick 1-A and 2-B or 1-B and 2-A - you need to make sure the options appear in that very specific order otherwise this would look confusing and cause the options to jump about.
Further more, total conversions may have a very real need to layout the build menus completely differently.
I've already covered the reasons why AI names are less useful. Don't get me wrong, I can see why some people might want them, I just don't think their usefulness even begins to compare to cameo sort ordering.
If you add 4 new buildings that are all the same tech level (because there are precious few of those) and the same cost (because they are all the same usefulness), how do you make sure they appear in the correct order? For example, you may have special power 1-A, 1-B, 2-A and 2-B. Using PrerequisiteNegative, the player can pick either the two 1's or the two 2's or the two A's or the two B's, but they aren't allowed to pick 1-A and 2-B or 1-B and 2-A - you need to make sure the options appear in that very specific order otherwise this would look confusing and cause the options to jump about.
Further more, total conversions may have a very real need to layout the build menus completely differently.
I've already covered the reasons why AI names are less useful. Don't get me wrong, I can see why some people might want them, I just don't think their usefulness even begins to compare to cameo sort ordering.
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Believe me friend you're not the only one.
--Lysdexia
Check out Launch Base for RA2/YR - http://marshall.strategy-x.com
Also home to the Purple Alert mod, 1.002 UMP, and the YR Playlist Manager.