UX & keymapping wishlist for engineering about space-nerds-in-space HOT 5 OPEN

more save slots for engineering presets (ten, at least

Where'd you come up with that number? What are you going to do with all those? I haven't found much need for more than about three.

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• 4359b3f Make long press of number keys on engineering save preset

Not exactly what you asked for, but it mimics the on-screen buttons, if you long-press those with the mouse, they save the current settings as that preset, so it made sense that the keyboard buttons should work the same way for setting presets. Same as a car radio.

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Cool! Thank you.
My rationales for wanting more presets, and for the specificity of requesting ten slots: I have two sets of ten presets each that I use for different scenarios in Artemis. (If I could, I'd have even more in each.) And there's ten digits on our standard keyboards.

As an engineer, I can listen to what's going on at the other stations and hit my preset buttons at the right moment. Magically, just like when I was lighting theatrical shows in high school, everyone else looks great and nobody notices that the engineer exists.

A few of the systems in that other bridge simulator game aren't duplicated in SNIS (eg torpedoes and missiles come in one flavor each, they have their own tubes, and they don't require loading or unloading time, so there's no power management involved in the management of ordnance), which is fine — a tiny bit less coordination required with engineering. Maybe we lose the distinction between my torpedo-loading/unloading settings and my standard dogfight settings. But as an engineer or captain, I still want settings for all the following activities:

• sitting still and cooling off,
• focused scanning while doing little else,
• dogfighting,
• heavy firefights (more shields, less maneuvering),
• warping to wherever,
• high-energy turns,
• docking maneuvers,
• tactical ordnance at range,
• strafing runs,
• just surviving bombardment while escaping

Which... yeah that's ten. And I may be overlooking something.

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• 317de1e Make auto button sizing more accurate
• 40c8df3 Rearrange engineering buttons to make room for more presets
• 2f7da80 Increase number of engineering presets

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• cdd0cf7 Update engineering help text for additional presets

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