[QoL] Default Thruster Groups

4Peace shared this feedback 11 hours ago
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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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