Currently all modules are ordered alphabetically in the client. There is currently no wayto group modules by other criteria in the interface Publisher, Series, etc. making organization a bit of mess, especially since series modules don’t always follow strict naming conventions.
Can adding new columns for Era, Scale, Series, Topic, Publisher, etc. (from the new module library) and/or allowing the user to arrange in order of preference, be added to the backlog?
(FWIW, I’ve tried Edit Module and changing the Game Name (Module Name) field, but saving with a new module name creates a file mismatch when playing online.)
Are you talking about the Module Manager or the Game Library?
In the Game Library, you can use the advanced search to search for games with given tags, such as series, era, scale, topic, and so on, as well as by publisher. Press the icon in the search-bar.
Modules do not store meta information such as era, scale, topic, series, or publisher. Thus, the module manager would have to get that information from the Game Library. That would take quite a bit of development to get that working with the current code base. I think that is unlikely to happen unless someone contributes that code.
When playing on-line, you and your follow players should have exactly the same module - including the module name. In fact, the module name is how the server identifies the modules being played.
There are three fields that can be edited freely
Description
Additional Module information 1
Additional Module information 2
The latter two are not shown in the module manager (they actually do not seem to be used anywhere) while the first is.
icon in the search-bar.