Shipyards should group ship choices

[dmcbride]

We could tag ships with different types, and those types would appear in the UI so that users don't have to scroll through 20+ ship types to find the one they want, and it would provide an implicit clue as to what kind of ship it is when they open the type.

For example, attack ships (sweepers, seekers, snarks), defense ships (sweepers, fighters), cargo ships (dory, cargo, freighter, smuggler, hulk, scow?), waste ships (scow), platforms (mining, terra, gas giant) - not sure where to put excav, and probably have forgotten some off the top of my head.

[ashtraynaut]

imho, this could work:

• colonizing ships colony ship - short range colony ship - terraform ship - gas giant platform ship - stake - SS Hull
• industrial ships excavator - mining platform ship - scow - fissure sealer - supply pod
• reconaissance ships probe - surveyor - scanner
• electronic warfare detonator - bleeder - placebo - thud
• covert ops spy pod - spy shuttle - smuggler ship

[Imzogelmo]

I like both of your lists, and I assume the ships don't have to fit in only one filter, correct?

Basically a combination of your two lists would cover most situations, maybe with some minor tweaks.

• Trade - all the trade ships
• Waste - all the scows
• Attacks - all snarks, all seekers, detonators, bleeders, thuds, placebos, sweepers
• Defense - sweepers, fighters, drones
• Support - all the supply pods, fissure sealers
• Spies - spy pods, spy shuttles, smuggler ships
• Exploration - probes, scanners, surveyors
• Expansion - colony ships, SRCS, SS hulls, stakes, gg plats, terra plats
• Acquisition - mining plats, excavators

[dmcbride]

Buildings don't fit in a single list, I don't see why ships should, either. In fact, my example showed sweepers in both attack and defense, so I was anticipating multiple tasks for some ships. Smugglers would be in trade and spy, for example (I'd try to keep all categories either singular or plural, but that's a minor nit).

And, for the record, this is HGMNY's idea, not mine, I just created the issue to track it because I thought it a good enough idea to track.

[Imzogelmo]

Well, it's a very good idea, kudos to HGMNY

[nataliethistime]

:+1:

[Harlinator]

Would be nice to see this in Spaceport view also :)

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[ashtraynaut]

yes i have proposed this list as an idea of how to sort ships into a list which will give you a good overview of what you have. right now, ships are sorted by ID in your spaceport. so any new ship will be put at the end of the list.

that can be a very annoying thing if you are looking for a certain ship.

in the Trade Ministry it is even more complex because ships are not sorted by ID but it is more or less sorted by speed, cargo hold size and tier. so right now, if i want to know if i have any snarks on a base, i click a random, non-allied, colony and see what ships will appear in the send-list.

it's a solution, though not yet THE solution ;) a list where we can sort ships based on type, tier or speed would be great.

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Would be nice to see this in Spaceport view also :)

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[nataliethistime]

Again, :+1:!

[Zephyr101]

Whatever, as long as we can get rid of 80 pages of 1 ship would be an improvement! You are doing a great job 1vasari, thank you.

[zhodson]

I think something similar to the way ships are shown in the TM tab could work