Make fighters/drones in ship list UI collapsible #10058
Labels
enhancement
A suggestion for new content or functionality that requires code changes
UI
Everything related to the User Interface & Design (both artwork and code)
Problem Description
If you have a large number of ships that can carry fighters/drones, then managing the ship list UI becomes a chore, since scrolling is the only way to navigate it, and going through dozens (or maybe hundreds) of fighters/drones just to make one tweak isn't worth it.
Related Issue Links
https://www.reddit.com/r/endlesssky/comments/143x9ww/is_it_possible_to_collapse_drones_and_fighters_in/
#6640 (which has further links to previous closed issues)
Desired Solution
My FR is basically the reddit post title verbatim. If a ship is carrying some drones/fighters, then the ship list UI should let the user collapse their rows into the ship's row.
Maybe a button called Collapse All/Expand All could be added as well.
Alternative Approaches
Drones/fighters being carried by a ship could become 'associated' with it. By this I mean that drag-drop of a ship in the list would cause all its fighters/drones to be moved to the new place simultaneously. Also, while scrolling the list, the game could consider a ship+ its d/fs as a single unit to scroll past, speeding up scrolling into semantically sensible chunks.
This would also allow swapping a d/f between ships that are parked on the same planet.
Additional Context
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