Please add a shortcut to control the closest warship

[Lako-Lako]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In game it can be tricky to control warships quickly, you either have to zoom in on every ship or have a risk of miss clicking.

Describe the solution you'd like
I think a keyboard shortcut could make using warships more dynamically a nice and easy way to improve the game

Describe alternatives you've considered
The current way is also ok, I just think it could be improved without to much change

[Lako-Lako]

I also thought about an pick all warships short cut, which could be nice to coordinate a large attack or defense but that might be to far.

[JackSmackU]

Would also be good to be able to control ships like command and conquer, [select ships, press alt key and a number key to assign as group] then when you press [crtl and that number] the grouped ships will highlight and when you click on position those grouped ships will go there.

[Chuma747]

Could you further elaborate on the issue. Is it a button that toggles through the ships ?

[JackSmackU]

In the game command and conquer you could select multiple units then assign a hot key to reselect them. In OpenFront you could have it so that ie: hold Alt key then click the ships you want to be grouped together. then press Ctrl and a number, lets say Ctrl 1. those ships you selected will be grouped so in the game when you press Ctrl 1 those ships will highlight and when you left click on the water all those ships will go to that location instead of doing them 1 at a time. by having that type of system you could have say 4 ships grouped to Ctrl 1 8 ships grouped to Ctrl 2 6 ships grouped to Ctrl 3 and so on using all the number keys 0-9 So in game at any point if you need to move a group of ships that are still alive you just hit Ctrl and a number and if there are ships grouped to that number they will be selected and when you click on the water all those ships will go to that location instead of doing them 1 at a time to regroup ships press Ctrl and a number key and that will clear previous grouping and create a new one

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[VariableVince]

Some possibly related PRs (belonging together): #3498, #3499 and #3501

[Lako-Lako]

I think that change would make it more important to be able to control ships more easily. Is this a wanted addition? Then I would try myself on a pr. (mostly a key to select closest warship and select all warships, the Idea from Jack seems a bit complex for OF?)

[JackSmackU]

Hey Yeah, it does seem a bit complex for open front, but it is extremely tedious. Trying to select every single ship individually. Another thought I had was a air derense ship exactly like sam site but with more aa coverage than a sam site. The ship would have to be defenceless, so you would have to protect it with your destroyers. Thanks Jack

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