{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435/events","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435","id":121631340,"number":435,"title":"Request: Easier way to select disabled escorts","user":{"login":"johndh","id":692397,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/692397?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh","html_url":"https://github.com/johndh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johndh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"c7def8"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-12-11T03:44:57Z","updated_at":"2015-12-11T23:16:28Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I have a fleet with well over a hundred escorts and there's no easy way to select a given escort for boarding if I'm not near enough to click on it (and how can I even tell where it is without selecting it first?).  The B key only does it in the exceedingly rare case that there aren't any disabled enemies to board.  There are a few alternative solutions I can imagine, in order of what I think as a player would be most intuitive and useful:\r\n\r\n1) Select a ship in the player info window to target it\r\n2) When cycling through escorts, have disabled escorts go first, followed by out-of-fuel second, then any other escorts third (since there's little reason to cycle through this list looking at healthy ships).\r\n3) B could be for boarding enemies and shift+B could board friendlies\r\n4) A hotkey for selecting disabled and out-of-fuel escorts"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/comments/164075130","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435#issuecomment-164075130","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/435","id":164075130,"user":{"login":"endless-sky","id":11450262,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11450262?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-11T23:16:28Z","updated_at":"2015-12-11T23:16:28Z","body":"I've added option #3 (Shift + B) in commit 7029878. Also note that you can double-click a ship to board it, but I assume that by \"select a ship\" you meant the escort icon, not the ship itself."}}