Author Topic: Switching Planets  (Read 1099 times)

Offline solops

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Switching Planets
« on: August 23, 2012, 10:33:35 am »
Is there a "next Planet" button somewhere? I find moving from one to the next incredibly tedious.

Offline Hearteater

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Re: Switching Planets
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 10:46:22 am »
Next in what context?  You can click on planets in the Galaxy Map (which you access with Tab).  You can Control-click on a worm hole to go to the planet on the other end of that worm hole.  And if I recall correctly, if you have something in a control group, selecting that control group will take you to that planet.

Offline solops

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Re: Switching Planets
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 10:52:53 am »
No, I mean something simple. Suppose I am looking around at at stuff in a system and I want to move on. Is there an "Next" button that automatically shifts me to the next system (alphabetically picked or whatever)? I don't want to have to find a wormhole or go to the galaxy map just to shift planets.

Offline TechSY730

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Re: Switching Planets
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2012, 11:12:15 am »
Well, you can assign certain structures a control group, and when you select that group, it will take you to the planet that structure is one. But that isn't ideal for anything but your ultra important stuff (like your home command station) as it eats up your control group slots.

In terms of what you are asking, no, there is no "next planet" button. Possibly because there for most of the game, there are many planet you don't have a presence on nor active visibility on, thus you will scroll through a large number of planets you don't care about quite a bit.
As you hinted at though, this could sort of be solved by "filters" (like several commands, one, switch to next plant, the other being switch to next controlled planet, and maybe even one more meaning switch to next controlled or allied planet, or something like that)

This would actually be a nifty suggestion for Mantis (the bug/feature request tracker): http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/