Author Topic: Requests for More Shortcuts, Selection/Galaxy View Filters (Lots of Stuff)  (Read 1721 times)

Offline GTD-Carthage

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Being the slow guy that I am, I'm still apparently stuck in my very first 80-planet diff 6 game but regardless of that, I feel like I've spent enough time to discuss hotkeys. I definitely don't think it's a good idea to make a new thread for every request so here goes:

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My list rapidly expanded after putting more thought into this so I removed an older list I put up.

Galaxy View Filters/Shortcuts:
- A filter category and shortcut for finding out all engineers and rebuilders. (Maybe in something like a [#/#/#] format like [engineers/rebuilders/cleaners]. Custom search is ugh.) [RESOLVED, ALREADY EXISTS]
- A filter to view the total cumulative strength of all defenses and ships across planets.
- A filter to view the number and/or defensive units across planets.

Planet View Shortcuts:
- A hotkey for selecting all on-orbit transports. [RESOLVED, ALREADY EXISTS]
- A hotkey to make all selected ships board on-orbit transports... OR allow ships to board transports through shift-clicking. When a transport is fully loaded, ships simply move to the next transport... [RESOLVED, ALREADY EXISTS]
- A hotkey for selecting all non-mobile defenses? (Turrets, mines, speed traps...)

When a factory is selected:
- A button or shortcut for clearing the whole production queue.
- The following might annoy some people so I'll emphasize that the following shortcuts may be too lazy...
-- Middle-mouse-click results in adding one instance of all combat-capable ships to queue.
-- MMClick + Shift adds 5 of all combat ship types to queue.
-- MmClick + Alt does above but ten this time!

Some of the shortcuts I've listed here might already exist... I do try to review the controls list for something that might just quicken any part of my actions.
« Last Edit: March 29, 2014, 10:46:02 am by GTD-Carthage »

Offline Chthon

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The ability to pause just the build queue on MSDs, so they continue repairing but don't build ships.

Offline Vinraith

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Being the slow guy that I am, I'm still apparently stuck in my very first 80-planet diff 6 game but regardless of that, I feel like I've spent enough time to discuss hotkeys. I definitely don't think it's a good idea to make a new thread for every request so here goes:

[Edit]
My list rapidly expanded after putting more thought into this so I removed an older list I put up.

Galaxy View Filters/Shortcuts:
- A filter category and shortcut for finding out all engineers and rebuilders. (Maybe in something like a [#/#/#] format like [engineers/rebuilders/cleaners]. Custom search is ugh.)

This is one of many things easily done through the magnifying glass icon on the left in the galaxy view.

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Planet View Shortcuts:
- A hotkey for selecting all on-orbit transports.

A single click on the transport icon in the right bar does this.


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- A hotkey to make all selected ships board on-orbit transports... OR allow ships to board transports through shift-clicking. When a transport is fully loaded, ships simply move to the next transport...

Select ships, alt-right click, and select "auto load transports."


Offline GTD-Carthage

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Crap, forgot the alt+click context menu exists. :o Thanks for the transport management options. That actually reduces my time managing transport ships HUGELY!

I also have another shortcut:
- The hotkey for having selected ships retreat back to the nearest friendly wormhole.

Offline Vinraith

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Crap, forgot the alt+click context menu exists. :o Thanks for the transport management options. That actually reduces my time managing transport ships HUGELY!

I can't imagine playing without it. Enjoy! :)