"Select All Factories" Key Bind

[Morax]

We have select all extractors, engineers, air, blah blah

Why not factories? Still to this day we can only select all land, air, naval?

[Kalvirox]

+1
This is a good idea, makes changing way points on-the-go much easier.

[Morax]

Not just that, but it would also be helpful to temporarily pause production, say you get a giant reclaim field, and can pour it all into an extractor upgrade quickly to minimize down-time.

[R_Charger]

Probably worth adding into the next FAF build but you can add your own custom hotkey in the UserKeyActions section of your game preferences e.g.

['Select all factories onscreen'] = {
order = 39,
action = 'UI_SelectByCategory +inview FACTORY',
category = 'Custom Keys'
},

Lose the +inview modifier if you want all whether on or off-screen. I prefer this way as you can use the zoom level to control which you select.

[JoonasTo]

Hmmm, isn't select all land/air/naval factories enough? When do you want to select all of them at once?

[Morax]

Hmmm, isn't select all land/air/naval factories enough? When do you want to select all of them at once?

Did you not read the post? xD

Kal and I outlined two greats reasons to do so above.

[JoonasTo]

I'm interested in what use it would be, hotkey options are cool, you can always leave them unbound if need be but what's the use you imagined for this one?

I enjoy using the select all factories of a type(naval one in particular, it's very helpful for setting waypoints,) but having all my reclaim factories and air scout factories to the same waypoint seems worthless. When do you use this?

Whenever I pause for mex upgrades(or ras) I need to pause all the engineers too so I just shift box the whole map to do that so I don't see an improvement there.

[Morax]

JoonasTo, just because you don't think you would use it does not mean that others would not.

I don't understand how what Kalvirox and I said is not an acceptable description of why WE would find it nice to have.

[XenoJade]

I mean, I don't see why not. I wouldn't cry over it if it never gets added, but it sounds like an improvement that has valid reasons as to why someone would want to use it.

[nine2]

Just make it already, then send to devs to put in next release. Very easy, just read the thread on making key bindings