I was just tinkering with the ship designer as i was modifying one of my units and then i realised there's a bit of a problem here. Lots of unnecessary clicks.



If like me you sometimes specialise ships then you will have lots of modules of one type on the ships. like slugs +5, but to remove them all you have to remove them one at a time and click 5 times. So to put it bluntly.



1)Can we have a way to remove/add multiples of a module? even if just shift-click would add 2 instead of 1 at a time it would save some extra needless clicking.



2)Similar to the above, but it would be nice to have a button to remove all of one module, or again with a key combination.



3)Perhaps also a nice addition would be another button to "remove all" which would remove everything currently equipped on the ship allowing you to start again. Sometimes the auto-upgrade just doesn't cut it and i want to replace multiple things on an old design without creating an all new ship. In such cases it's easier to just remove everything and then re-create the ship with all the latest tech you want.

Yeah, that'd be nice to have.

HI,

Does somebody know how to get back the original design of a ship after deleting it?

My case: New tech so I upgrade the armor on a colonizer and delete the old one.

Then, I want to create a basic colonizer with no improvements = cheapest possible on resources (and turn) just to colonize a planet on the same system.

But I tried several times but can't create a design with no improvement, and went I type COLONY as design name, it goes red and I still can't click on "CREATE".

Maybe it's a flaw in the game... hope it's possible in the beta release.

LCharles wrote:
HI,

Does somebody know how to get back the original design of a ship after deleting it?

My case: New tech so I upgrade the armor on a colonizer and delete the old one.

Then, I want to create a basic colonizer with no improvements = cheapest possible on resources (and turn) just to colonize a planet on the same system.

But I tried several times but can't create a design with no improvement, and went I type COLONY as design name, it goes red and I still can't click on "CREATE".

Maybe it's a flaw in the game... hope it's possible in the beta release.

Maybe the name goes red if the name is already being used. Just a guess as i've not actually tried. So it might be that you already have a design called "colony" and so it won't let you make a new one. Try naming it something like "C-Colony" for cheap colony and see if it still won't let you.

Im supporting this.

Also: I wont copy paste, but please refer to my blog post. Leave your thoughts and if you agree with me, keep on posting the link around. I hope to get the devs attention somehow.

This thread is the origin of enhancing the ship design UI discussions.

Other threads about this have been archived:

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Feel free to post here about this topic here and inform yourself about the variations the threads listed above have already discussed, but don't open new suggestion threads for anything alike.