What?
Similar to how you can build out of your character inventory by clicking on an item and placing it on your cursor, I propose you should be able to select items from the space platform inventory, just with ghosts instead.Why?
Right now both left and right clicking an item in the space platform hub does not do anything. In your character inventory, clicking an item places the item on your cursor, and allows you to place said item (if it is a building), or 'z' drop it into machines (for modules). This is useful when building on Nauvis, for the rare items that aren't on your hotbar.In space, you cannot select items out of the space platform, which does not match the character inventory behavior. Yes, you can select buildings off of your hotbar, or use the new 'e' menu, or pipette. However, this can be cumbersome, particularly now with quality.
Additionally, buildings in the space platform hub do not have highlighted counts in your hotbar, making it unclear how many of each item you have remaining. I suppose this could be a separate feature request: since there is only one inventory in space, the platform hub, your hotbar when in space platform nav view could show the counts of items in the hub inventory instead.
Summary
- General quality of life
- Matches character inventory behavior and thus muscle memory
- Upon reaching space, you get access to a whole new set of buildings, which do not exist on your hotbar yet
- You are incentivized to send quality buildings to space, which generally also do not exist on your hotbar
- You can see clearly which buildings exist in the inventory, available to build with. Useful if you are short on eg particular inserter types, or have assorted quality buildings.
Enjoying Space Age so far!
