I've recently been working on allowing users to buy ranks or get them from crates and have run into an issue. It seems I am unable to set a group to take precedence over another group.

The issue really comes when a staff rank gets a rank upgrade. My member ladder tree inherits permissions from previous groups as users rank up so there is no problem. I want staff, however, to be able to gain perms from additional ranks while keeping their staff title. I understand PEX reads from top to bottom.

Here is an example user with ranks setup in the correct way:

group:
- moderator
- warrior
options:
name: FreedomWaffle

Moderator will take precedence and the display name will show correctly. However, if I use the command /pex user FreedomWaffle group add immortal the staff chat tag is lost. Here is the example user after running that command:

group:
- immortal
- moderator
- warrior
options:
name: FreedomWaffle

As you can see, immortal is at the top of the list, therefore taking precedence over moderator.

I use DeluxeChat so chat format is added with the folowg permission node:
chatformat.

I've tried negating the permission node of all chat groups on the normal ladder but the last added group still takes precedence. Is there any way to reorder a user's groups with commands so it can be automated?

You need to give each group a "weight", as you see in this example.

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