[QoL] Default Thruster Groups
In SE1, I often created these groups on virtually every ship:
- All thrusters
- All hydrogen thrusters
- All ion thrusters
- Forward-facing thrusters (all types)
- All hydrogen tanks
- All gyros
- All landing gears
- All batteries
- All reactors
Thruster groups were basically a must-have on every single ship. It became an almost mandatory task that I had to repeat over and over again, including creating the groups and adding them to the hotbar.
It would be a huge time saver to have these kinds of standard groupings available by default, without having to repeat the tedious process of recreating them for every ship, updating them when new blocks are added, and managing hotbar slots.
Instead, we could have standard shortcuts (which could also be rebind). This way, no matter what ship you are piloting, you would always have the ability to toggle all thrusters on or off, or only forward-facing thrusters, toggle different thruster types, and maybe a few other commonly used actions like stockpiling all tanks.
If some thrusters were on and some were off, pressing the shortcut would set them all to the same state, for example turning all thrusters on if the majority were off.
If you add more thrusters to your grid, you would not need to worry about updating anything, these shortcuts would just work as intended.
Another option would be having these as built-in “autogroups” available for the hotbar on cockpit blocks or a flight computer block. However, I would personally prefer shortcuts for quick access, without having to dedicate hotbar slots to these standard actions. It is similar to how we can already turn all blocks on or off with the Y key. Imagine having to manually create a group with all blocks every time and place that action on the hotbar just to achieve the same result.
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I would think it might work better for some of these to be a dampeners option. If you hold z for 3 seconds, an option wheel could pop up that gives you more options, like disabling forward facing thrusters, or using only a specific type of thrust. Afterwards, Press Z (or bound key) once to turn off dampeners completely, and twice to turn everything back on.
I wouldn't include Tanks, Gyros, or power in this, but they could be linked to another Hold press, like hold Y to turn certain things on or off, like turning on and off only the reactors but keeping the batteries on.
I would think it might work better for some of these to be a dampeners option. If you hold z for 3 seconds, an option wheel could pop up that gives you more options, like disabling forward facing thrusters, or using only a specific type of thrust. Afterwards, Press Z (or bound key) once to turn off dampeners completely, and twice to turn everything back on.
I wouldn't include Tanks, Gyros, or power in this, but they could be linked to another Hold press, like hold Y to turn certain things on or off, like turning on and off only the reactors but keeping the batteries on.
Automatic distribution of blocks into groups when pressing any key in the taskbar would really simplify the gameplay. It would be cool if they added such a feature.
Automatic distribution of blocks into groups when pressing any key in the taskbar would really simplify the gameplay. It would be cool if they added such a feature.
Add a wheel for everything I say.
Add a wheel for everything I say.
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