Factory hotkey behavior

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Ok, so I personally use a lot of hotkeys, especially a lot of those “select all facs” hotkeys. Up until recently I had a good experience with them, though lately I found them to become ever increasingly irritating to use as they behave quite counter-intuitively when you have factories of differing tech levels.

For example, let’s say you have:

- 30 t3 air support factories
- a t3 air hq
- one t2 air support factory, because you needed to rush a t2 engie for tmd or something

Now:

1. You use your “select all air factories” hotkey
2. Delete the old queue
3. Queue up asfs

Result:

- All factories are idle, the asfs you queued up will not be built.
- Your command to build asfs will be ignored completely.

Reason:

Since one factory you built is still on t2 and therefore unable to build asfs, the command will be ignored for all other factories as well.
This is extremely unintuitive, as your commands will basically be ignored because of one factory and it is easy to lose track of all your factories’ tech levels.

How it would be better:

Instead of all factories ignoring your order to build asfs, only the factory which doesn’t meet the tech level required to build asfs should ignore the order.
Like this you would be able to queue up asfs even without every factory having the same tech level which would make much more sense.

Would it be possible to do this? Thanks in advance

[Steel_Panther]

Ok, so I personally use a lot of hotkeys, especially a lot of those “select all facs” hotkeys. Up until recently I had a good experience with them, though lately I found them to become ever increasingly irritating to use as they behave quite counter-intuitively when you have factories of differing tech levels.

For example, let’s say you have:

- 30 t3 air support factories
- a t3 air hq
- one t2 air support factory, because you needed to rush a t2 engie for tmd or something

Now:

1. You use your “select all air factories” hotkey
2. Delete the old queue
3. Queue up asfs

Result:

- All factories are idle, the asfs you queued up will not be built.
- Your command to build asfs will be ignored completely.

Reason:

Since one factory you built is still on t2 and therefore unable to build asfs, the command will be ignored for all other factories as well.
This is extremely unintuitive, as your commands will basically be ignored because of one factory and it is easy to lose track of all your factories’ tech levels.

How it would be better:

Instead of all factories ignoring your order to build asfs, only the factory which doesn’t meet the tech level required to build asfs should ignore the order.
Like this you would be able to queue up asfs even without every factory having the same tech level which would make much more sense.

Would it be possible to do this? Thanks in advance

Yes that is pretty annoying. The only current solution, which is what i just do anyway, is just zoom out and double click your support air factories, because it will only select the exact same unit, which is a factory of the same tech level. But then you don't also select the hq, which makes it slightly worse.

[R_Charger]

Why don't you just define a custom hotkey for T3 air factories?

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I don’t only use the hotkey for my t3 air facs, I use the hotkey for my t1 and t2 air facs as well. So, replacing it with this isn’t an option for me.

Therefore, your suggestion would mean that I would have to make another hotkey for basically the same job, and I don’t really have space for something like that. Though I will think about removing some other hotkey for it.

A solution like this is also just a workaround and doesn’t really fix the problem. The behavior with the current hotkey stays pretty unintuitive, and additionally, not everybody who has the same problem as I knows how to make custom hotkeys or even knows that it's possible to begin with.

But still thank you for your suggestion, I will give it a thought