Alphabetize the costume parts

It probably would in the sense that any reorganization does. It would make us have to rebuild all of our current costumes in order to make even the slightest changes, since everything would be in a different place. It might even be a bit worse than that, assuming that everything new would require a rebuild to put it in its proper order, and thus forcing us to do the same with every new addition. That being said, it's become a rather regular occurrence to have to rebuild all of our costumes as it is, so what would the real difference be?

Despite the humor, I can see this actually being the issue. That's why the apparently "easy" changes haven't already happened.

Unfortunately, it isn't, if I recall a post from years ago by Castle or another sadly-no-longer-with-us Dev properly. A lot of the original costume parts are hard coded into the game engine as a numbered list, with a few gaps in place to allow for the "unlikely" event of additional costume parts being added. (Memories of Y2K, anyone?) This is why most of the newer parts got added haphazardly to the end of the parts list: there is no sane way to stick them in the middle where they belong without decompiling the main application code, making fundamental changes, recompiling, and distributing the change as yet-another-2GB-download.

(Yes, I am aware of the miracles performed on the head and chest piece lists, which gives me hope for the rest of the costume editor. We just need to give the coders time to resolve the issue. And they've been busy up until late. This whole "Freedom" thing. )

Standard Code Rant applies. We have no way of knowing how the code for the game was written, but since the devs are still adding new stuff 7 years later and the game does not implode, it's reasonable to think it's not that badly written.