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Sort Looking for Group by NEXT GAME date

Hey, not sure how hard this would be to implement, but I'd like to see the 'Looking for Group' area to sort by NEXT GAME date. I think right now they're sorted by the order they were entered in. I created a game, posted it to LFP, and searched just using "English" instead of the game system. My game is NOT there. There are about 200 other games, some clearly not in English and several of which are looking for 9,999 players or have no set date they ever intend to play--- meaning someone who wants to see my game is going to have to wade through that caca to never get to my game or use the filters without knowing the game is even there. If they were sorted by NEXT GAME, then the most upcoming games would be listed first, then games with no dates whatsoever, then games with expired dates, meaning people could ignore those "9999 player no date" campaigns and see what's actually up for play more easily. If I'm missing a way to do this, I apologize for cluelessness. (REGARDING NOT BEING IN THE LISTINGS:  I clearly checked 'English" as the game language; set a number of relevant tags to appropriate systems; and set the next game date. My game doesn't show up AT ALL using just the "English" filter (while Spanish and Finnish games do...). It does show up if I use the game-system filter, but that assumes you know what systems are actually being offered-- why is someone who has no game system, no date, and needs 9999 players listed but a clear system in English with a fixed date not?)
Did you set your campaign to Look for Group? You actually need to actively do that to attract players I think.
yeah, I did. I filled it out with tags and everything and clicked it over to on and I show a green dot in the campaign instead of a red one. It now shows up when I search by "English" language (I did NOT change anything about the campaign since my first post on the subject). The first few times I searched it didn't show up at all or else was buried under the endless "9,999 players needed/No game date" campaigns, several of which don't even list the system they're playing/using-- I scrolled as far down as it went and it didn't show up the first three times I looked (and I'm not sure it'll be there next time) but it was there just now. Filter search for "Champions" or "Hero System" and it shows up as the first option, regardless of language. The campaign name starts with "A" so the list isn't doing it alphabetically or it'd show up in the language sort early each time. I don't know if there's any sorting on the list at all (anyone with Dev Team know the answer to that off hand?)-- my guess is they're listed in the order they're posted and there's a limit to how many listings can be shown. If this is a common problem--perhaps with non-d20 listings or just with listings in general, then GMs with games can't use the "Looking for Group" area effectively for advertising games and non-existant games are taking up the load of the list. Thus my suggestion to have them automatically sort by NEXT GAME date as a FIRST filter before language or game system, with those as 2ndary sorts. This way, upcoming games get the most advertising and "9,999 players needed/no date/no game system" get pushed to the back of the list where they belong...
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Gauss
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Havster, could you post that your game is not showing up in the bug forum please?  - Gauss
Well, it shows up sometimes...  I'm not interested in the bug as much as changing the way that the whole "Look for Group" sorts as a suggestion for the Devs to throw on their infinite list of ideas. It seems a "Next Game" natural first filter would make more sense and be more useful to players and GMs alike.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Ahh ok :) - Gauss