What's a Consideration?
A consideration is one of the optimizer's goals — like minimizing quick changes, balancing multi-show appearances, or keeping styles from being back-to-back. Each consideration has two controls:
- Enabled / Disabled — should the optimizer care about this at all?
- Priority: High, Normal, or Low — when goals conflict, which wins?
How Priority Works
The optimizer is always juggling tradeoffs. Reducing quick changes might mean a slightly less balanced multi-show. Keeping styles spread out might mean an extra quick change. Priority is how you tell ShowSort what to value first.
- High — almost always wins over Normal and Low considerations
- Normal — the default for most things
- Low — included as a tiebreaker, but won't push the show around much
When to Tweak
Most shows do fine with everything on Normal. Tweak only when you have a specific need — e.g., "I really care about Families staying together, even if it costs me a couple of quick changes." Set Families to High and re-optimize.
Turning Things Off
You can fully disable any consideration. The optimizer will ignore it entirely. This is handy if a feature isn't relevant to your show (e.g., disabling Mix It Up if you don't have styles configured).