Pawn grouping hotkeys

Started by kfsone, June 10, 2017, 06:18:19 PM

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kfsone

I guess my old RTS C&C, SC, WC etc background shows: I'm dying for the lack of pawn-grouping keys (and the inability to reorder the pawn bar).

Shift-1: Remember currently selected pawns as group 1,
Ctrl-1: Select all the pawns in group 1,

Bonus:
Ctrl-1: if group 1 is empty, select drafted pawns instead,
Alt-1: Add/remove the selected pawn to/from group 1,

Repeat for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Example use case:

Poison ship: You only want ranged users, so you go thru your pawns and draft all the ranged folks. You can either individually set them all to run over to the thing or you can go back and bulk-select them all.

I guess I'm going to have to start looking at modding :) I want to be able to see where other pawns are being sent while I'm directing pawns so I can avoid bunching them up or putting them in-front of each other.

erdrik

+1

In fact it would be great if you could do this for more than just pawns.
I would love to be able to place all my lights or power switches into a control groups so I can give a flick command to entire sections of my colony.