UI: a way to organize the list of space platforms
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2026 3:36 pm
TL;DR
When you have lots of space platforms, the list gets cluttered.WHY?
With the advent of space platforms being able to request items from one another, orbital factory infrastructure is a super viable design strategy, creating space factories making ammo/fuel for passing haulers, etc. It is a design paradigm that is a lot of fun to explore, and should IMO be encouraged.However, currently all space platforms are shown in a huge alphabetized list, which is suboptimal.
Exhibit A:
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WHAT?
Basically just a few utilities would be good. Does not have to be fancy. Any of the following would IMO be an improvement in UX:- The ability to collapse the list of platforms itself to hide it from view and save screen real estate.
- Searching space platforms by name.
- Grouping space platforms by planet.
- Creating collapsible folders in the space platform list to manually group them.
- Giving space platforms groups like trains.
- The ability to give space platforms tags in some way and group them by tag.