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by camshaft97 » Fri, 16. Jul 21, 03:25
But...the question Saphyra originally asked was about restocking ammo "without micromanaging them one by one". (not cargo space).
Just to be thorough, I'll describe the steps I use during a big fight, but this still results in one-by-one:
-In the Object Browser, Shift combined with mouse-click to select multiple ships, or...
-On the Map, shift combined with mouse-left-click and drag a box around them.
-This gets you a selection of ships regardless of fleet assignments. When I right-click a Wharf, select upgrade, we find ourselves on the upgrade screen, which works fine, but...
-You're not purchasing for -all- ships with 1 click. Instead, Each ship must be selected one-by-one, move the slider for missiles, add to cart, then select next ship, repeating for each ship.
*It seems to be done this way because each ship needs different quantities. One might need 5, my other ship needs 12 missiles.
SUGGESTION: There needs to be a way to just say "Restock All these ships now!", and from my example, it would result in one purchase of 17 missiles, rather than 2 purchases. There will be limitations. The software won't know how to simultaneously load one ship with dumb-fire missiles and another with guided-missiles. So this suggestion comes with limitations. You might only be able to say "Restock everyone with guided-missiles", or whatever specific ware selection.
I've wanted something like this during fights when the situation suddenly changes: say, something like 50 ships versus a KHK station with a few 'raiders', but then my satellites show another group headed this way. My ships had the fight well-in-hand, but that's because they used all their ammo getting dominance in the area, and were just slowly wearing down the station.
*Ah YES!, but the situation has changed, and I don't want to wait for them to realize later-on that they need to restock. I want them to stop, and re-stock now, quickly.
So, yes, some sort of brute-force "ReStock Fleet now!" button would be more fun than clicking...
-Select ship, click.
-Select consumables, click
-Move slider, click
-Add to cart, click
-Repeat, by selecting next ship
(plus one 'complete order')
For 50 ships, thats about 50 * 4 = 200 + 1 = 201 mouse clicks. Which takes time.
*Another thing I've tried that works: You can restock 1 fleet with another fleet. So today, I had a fleet of 10 Eclipse fighters, and used anther fleet of 10 named "Fleet-ReSupply" of the same ship (not Auxiliary ships). You can :
-Select 1st ship in Fleet-Resupply
-Select Wharf, Upgrade, move the slider for Missles, Confirm
-After the purchase, select that ship, Right-click the 1st ship in the Fleet that needs restock, select "Trade Wares with XYZ-123", and the missiles are in the list of wares that can be traded.
This was faster because the fighters are faster than the auxiliary ships, but it was still about the same number of mouse-clicks.
fun stuff,
-Cam