placing mines in a line

[Cyborg]

What is the name of the control setting that allows you to open the menu to do a line placement? I have discovered different context menus, but I can't figure out how to get that one.

[Aklyon]

Alt right click, I think.

[Cyborg]

It's not working because I redid my keyboard controls.

I need more specifics on which control I need to edit.

[keith.lamothe]

It's not working because I redid my keyboard controls.

I need more specifics on which control I need to edit.

The "Alt" in "Alt+Right-click" is the input binding labeled "Right-Click To Open Default Context Menu".  There's a similar one (unbound by default) which lets you open the context menu with a single keypress (no mouse needed).

But it sounds like you were able to trigger the context menu system, just not get to the specific menu that had the line-place option.

You get to that by triggering the context menu when you actually have a mine (or similar placable) "on the cursor" for placement.  So for example:
1) start new game
2) select home command station
3) on SUP tab, click the Mines button
4) with the cursor hovering over some space (and thus drawing the mines in that greenish color), press alt+right-click or whatever you use to trigger the context menu
5) "line place" will show up on the context menu, and if you click that it gives more specific instructions.  They're kind of engineer-designed-UI in terms of usability, but overall it's an asset.

[Cyborg]

This is the menu I see when I set that control. What am I doing wrong?

[keith.lamothe]

This is the menu I see when I set that control. What am I doing wrong?

I, er, wow, I didn't think there was a way to bring up the arc-move menu anymore.  Is that 7.009?  Possibly it's a result of different bindings having curious interactions I didn't anticipate.

Anyway, here's an alternate way of getting straight to Line-Place:

1) On the settings window, click View Controls in the bottom left
2) Switch to the Any Time tab
3) Click the > button to go to page 2
4) On the "Open Line-Place Context Menu" row (either one of them, strangely there's two of them... anyway), click Edit
5) Assign something to the binding; in my example I did Modifier1 = LeftAlt and PrimaryKey = Slash (i.e. forward slash)
6) Click Save and get back out to the game
7) Select your home command station
8 ) SUP Tab
9) Click Mines
10) Press the binding you assigned in step 5
11) The resulting window should have as its top line "Line Place Step 1"

[Cyborg]

Success, thank you.

[keith.lamothe]

Glad to hear it.  Though I'm sure the AI ships aren't.  Maybe we should give them voice clips for "whyyy do we always have to travel in a straight line?"