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TL;DR

Please add support for using the same keys for blueprint book next/previous and smaller/larger tile build size.

What ?

Since one only applies when you're holding a blueprint, and the other when you're holding a tile, there is no practical conflict, but if you try binding both sets to the same keys (e.g. shift+wheel for both) the tile build size ones won't work. Please add logic to allow both commands to work in their appropriate context even if they're set to the same keys. OK, I guess they technically both apply if you're holding a tile with a blueprint book open. But that's such a corner case I wouldn't really case what happens in that event, either, neither both, whatever.

Why ?

It would be handy. To me they are very similar command pairs, in that they both modify the thing you're about to build with and have a forward and backward direction. So it would feel natural to bind them the same. I'm currently using ctrl+wheel for tiles, which is almost as good, but not quite.

P.S. I'm pretty sure this one really isn't possible currently, unlike my last control binding suggestion

In the controls, you can rebind the blueprint next previous keys, and the landfill size keys. Are you saying that the game won't let you set them to the same key, or that it doesn't work properly if you set them up to use the same key?

Zavian wrote:In the controls, you can rebind the blueprint next previous keys, and the landfill size keys. Are you saying that the game won't let you set them to the same key, or that it doesn't work properly if you set them up to use the same key?

It will let you set it that way, but the tile (or fill) size commands don't actually work if you do that.

Ah. I had checked that you could rebind those to the same key, but hadn't actually tested them. Personally I'd call that a bug if that configuration doesn't work.