Project Clarity: General Thoughts

[Draco18s]

um...Control groups?

1) You don't always remember
2) Sometimes you aren't looking for things that have been control-grouped (I once went looking for transports, because they had my ships in them, and my control group didn't work because the ships didn't exist anywhere)
3) Limited number of control groups (either because you're limited to 10 or because 4-0 are inconvenient to press and so aren't used frequently)

[TechSY730]

Hey, you know how I can hit the Windows key and just start typing and a list of my programs instantly starts narrowing down based on what I've typed?

I'd like the ship search to work in that fashion:

Task: redirect all Raid Starships to a given planet.

1. Tab out to Galaxy Map.
2. Hit SPACE or some other dedicated key.
3. A li'l command window shows up near the bottom of the screen. Or top, side, whatever.
4. I start typing: R-A-I
5. List of ships immediately starts narrowing down to Raid Starships.
6. I hit TAB (the usual autocomplete key for command lines).
7. The command line autocompletes the entry to Raid Starships Mk I.
8. I hit TAB again.
9. Autocomplete scoots to the next available entry, Raid Starships Mk II.
10. I hit ENTER, and my ships are highlighted and selected.
11. I redirect them to where I want them.

So much less click-click-clickity-clackity hunt n peck. I know the above looks complicated, but I'm just spelling every step out. Really, it's just TAB, SPACE, type stuff, ENTER, RClick.

Seems very similar to the feature request at http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=1846