Adding Separators to the Organise Fields Menu

Suggestion Title: Adding Separators to the Organise Fields Menu Suggestion Summary: This would add visual separators/lines in between consecutive fields to make field overview clearer. The user would have the option to move them around and place fields within the separators. They could be renamed to things like 'wishforge' and 'showcase' to allow the user to place fields in the appropriate location. I made a little mockup here of what I think it could look like? I'm bad at explaining things I'm not sure if this should also be visible in the public view, maybe a limited number could work? You could possibly double click the separator to bring up a menu for it, with things like 'name' and 'make public' being options you can change? Positive points: - Increased clarity for the user, especially if they have a lot of fields - Encourages organisation, which would also help visiting users, if they can assume that the fields will be somewhat grouped by use (i.e. all trade/uft fields would be clustered together) - If the separators will be made visible in the public view as well, then finding UFT fields, wishforge fields will be very easy Negative points: - Overuse would again reduce clarity for the user, but really it would be up to the user to choose how they would want to use it. - If they are visible in public view, and fields aren't put in separators with the correct labels then some fields might be overlooked Reason For Consideration: Mainly to make it easier for the user to find the field/s they are looking for. It would also make the personal view of the fields more aesthetically pleasing, as this way it wouldn't just be one big block of fields. It could also be helpful for people with reading disabilities, as it would break up what is essentially a large block of text, into smaller, more concise blocks. It would largely just be a QoL improvement, as it wouldn't change anything about field mechanics, just a difference in how they would be displayed to the user.

Separators? Like what? Boxing them in would make things way too weird, and the overview is pretty clear to me, its the same as the navigation menu!

I'm not sure what you mean by 'boxing them in'? What I meant was more like headers in a way, so that you can quickly see what fields are in that section ^^ Here's my mockup c: To be fair, it's obviously not all that necessary when someone does have fewer fields, but for me I do have to scroll for a bit to get to my last field. Finding the specific field I want does get difficult, especially if they're all the same field type as well, since there's no real differentiation.

So basically make categories for fields? No support. You can easily name your fields, or whatever, but you don't really need "categories" of fields, plus, how would you move them between categories?

I like this idea. Sometimes moving fields around can get messy and difficult if you have a huge amount of them and having them properly labelled/broken down into groups would be incredibly helpful. I can see it being as simple as dragging a box into a category, so I don't think there's actually any issue there. And while naming them is the optimal idea, as someone who works a lot and used to hatch really fast, I bought a lot of fields and I don't have the time to go through and rename them all. This makes it a quick, at a glance thing for the user. All in all I don't see anything wrong with this suggestion. So thumbs up in support from me!

What would the UI for placing/moving these separators work? I feel these could be very useful, but I feel the UI would have to be very simple and easy to use or else it'll just be a hassle. Tangentially, how would buying a new field affect the markers?

support! I have so many fields (enough to hold about 4000 or more pokemon) so trying to sort pokemon into them is a nightmare! even with them all named and numbered, I have to read through most of them to find the field I'm looking for. this would seem an easy enough solution, if you can create categories and drag and drop fields above or below each line. it would make sorting and moving pokemon in fields so much quicker

For UI, I think simpler is better here. New separators would initially show up at the very top of the organising menu, and once they're put within all the fields, I'd assume they'd anchor themselves to the last field above them? So any fields place above the last field before a separator wouldn't have any impact on it, the separator would just move down with the field before it. Obviously moving the separator would be in increments of four fields, since that's the way the menu is set up at the moment, but it would be as simple as just placing the separator in the rough position you'd want it, and then moving the last 1-3 fields before or after the separator. In that case, moving fields gets priority over the position, and the anchor point would change (in case you're moving the last field before the separator, i.e. it would then anchor itself to the field before that one). I realise I'm very bad with words, so here's a sequence of pictures to illustrate what I'm imagining? 1 2 3 As for buying new fields, they would just slot in wherever they would show up anyways (which I think has to do with an internally stored number, since some fields I buy end up somewhere 10 fields back from the last one). If they would slot in after an anchor point, then they should become the new anchor point. Hopefully that makes sense c: Sorry for the essay ^^'

What if we could recolor the field buttons? Say we could have 5-10 preset colors that we could pick for the field(s) so instead of them all being grey buttons we could have some in light blue, yellow, light green etc which could also work for organization.

I don't think that would be a good idea because what about color blind people? They wouldn't be able to use it. I think just having a header is good. Also popping in to say I support, I think that's a great way to break up fields, especially for users with over 100 fields.