Hotkeying the Starbase

posted on December 11th, 2010, 5:13 am

I was hoping that the Starbase could be allowed to have a hotkey assigned to it WITHOUT giving that team number to the ships it creates.


  As Flops becomes more and more balanced and thus more competetive tourneys and games begin to surface, the need for these little things to help us go nuts arises.  Assigning a team to a shipyard and such is very valuable to help decrease the time it takes for ships to reach the battle.  However, sometimes you need to jump to your main base!  You can always hotkey a research station or something, but it would be really nice if there was a key that would center on your original starbase.

 
  I'm sure more hotkey things will come up as the game garners more strong players .

posted on December 11th, 2010, 5:25 am

That's what the home button is for, Boggzy.

There is a slight problem with that one, because it zooms you in a little.  If the Home button could be set up to be fully zoomed out, it would be perfect.

posted on December 11th, 2010, 5:37 am

I agree that being able to hot key  Nav. points to bases would be nice. In the Mech Warior  series of games  the N key is is used to hot key to  certian points predetermined on the map . Depending on the map and mission  Nav Alpha , Nav.Beta,..Ect and extract points are also mapped out. The  "M" is the hot key  for the  Repair vehicles key once ,it shows where they are  key again  sets the  repair location. Be nice to be able to use both  "N" for  jumping back to the starbases and the "M" key  to jump back to your yards  cycleing through  all  the  available  stations and yards. On a side note  has  any one  really use the patrol function much?  I find it is  a bit cranky to use.

posted on December 11th, 2010, 5:40 am

That's what the home button is for, Boggzy.

  Yarr!  Then that's exactly what I wanted! 

posted on December 11th, 2010, 1:44 pm

  Yarr!  Then that's exactly what I wanted! 

Remember, the delete key is near the home key, so watch out if you're pressing it in a rush. I decommissioned my Starbase by doing this!

posted on December 11th, 2010, 1:51 pm

ctrl+del might be a better hotkey for decom, just for the safty. what do you think?

posted on December 11th, 2010, 1:53 pm

Sounds like a safe bet. Won't be as amusing to lose this mistake, though.

posted on December 11th, 2010, 2:00 pm

ctrl+del might be a better hotkey for decom, just for the safty. what do you think?

maybe ctrl+alt+del to be extra safe

i think making it harder to accidentally decom is a good thing.

posted on December 11th, 2010, 3:03 pm

I like the change for delete 

Remember, hotkeys are your friends

posted on December 13th, 2010, 2:08 am

maybe ctrl+alt+del to be extra safe

Windows already has that. But....

Ctrl+BOTH SHIFTS+CAPSLOCK+Delete

That could work.