Space platform inventory autosort

[Aqo]

Right now space platform hub inventory has autosort enabled by default, same as player inventory, making it really hard to click on items to drop, and impossible to split items to drop (e.g. you want to only drop half a stack of something)

Isn't it possible to have autosort be on a toggle (checkbox in hub ui) to allow players to disable/enable this behavior based on whether it's desired or not?

[MDCCCLV]

When manually unloading the inventory screen, items are constantly moving, so if I try unload my extra iron ore with shift + click then at the last second it moves and I accidentally unload my spare crusher and it's wasted. There is no way to sort or have items not move around.

[computeraddict]

I think you can block the whole inventory to prevent automatic interaction, do your manual adjustments, then clear the block. Should work unless you have a block already in place.

[ChthonicMiasma]

TL;DR

A keybinding with a similar function to holding Ctrl in Windows task manager, that pauses the updating of item order in the production window.

What?

This keybinding, while held down, would still allow for values and graphs to update, but would pause the sorted movement of individual items in the production list allowing them to be selected more easily, especially the shorter the chosen time window is. Items not currently in the list that are produced would be added to the end of the list until the key was released.

Why?

I frequently want to check the production window and highlight specific items per minute, but it's a short time span and i find items bouncing around all over the place. I try to click a specific item but as I move my cursor over the item and click, one items production passes another and I click the wrong item. this problem compounds now that I want to deselect the incorrect item.

Currently the best solution I use is to choose a longer time duration to minimize the chance of items trading places, but then I have to switch back to per minute afterwards. This can also have the downside of making a much longer list of items to choose from.

Alternatively I can use the search function, but even then I may have to specify quality to avoid this issue, and sometimes I'd like to highlight multiple items that I've made in the past minute. This is doable but is a lot of effort compared to just clicking the items I'd like to focus on.

I could see this keybinding also being used to pause the updating of the crafting queue to avoid canceling an item incorrectly, usually because a prerequisite item with a very short build time completes as i target the item i wish to cancel (items that have been made would still be removed from the queue, but the queue wouldn't move), and space platform inventory when a building I'd like to send to the surface is sorted after an item I'm using the cargo bay to buffer (items added during would be still show up in the inventory but wouldn't automatically sort until the key is released), but I understand both of these scenarios could also be alleviated by better automation on my part.

[vinnief]

How about instead, a checkbox to optionally sort them alphabetically? This would keep the order the same over time.

[AnriMachishiro]

+1
Especially when you're checking something have a similiar producing cycle (like science packs), the bouncing is really annoying even without clicking
They just don't want stick there

[katastic]

TL;DR
- Control pauses inventory sorting.

What?
- Control pauses inventory sorting.

Why?
- How many times have you tried to dump something to a planet from your ship and your spaceship inventory is constantly changing position because of new items entering and leaving, and you pick the wrong item and dump to the planet? For the Task Manager in windows (since like Windows 95), if you hold CTRL, it pauses updating the display so you can select the thing you want without it constantly moving under your cursor.

Implementation:
- When pressing control (or whatever keybind), inventory freezes. NEW items get placed at the bottom. Old items going away disappear into empty slots.

Simple and effective.

Regards,
--Kat

[killerlink]

+1 here.

While I don't know if the suggested solution is the best in terms of gameplay, I have the same "problem".

After i had that issue a few times (and dropped the wrong stuff ...) I started to request the desired items by hub instead. So maybe a possible alternative/addition could be a "one time request" feature?

[eugenekay]

Previously

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged several suggestions trying to address the same issue.