Feature Suggestion: Lock components

[Norbert Sattler]

While designing my ships it happens from time to time that somehow I end up accidentally picking up placed components. This is particualrly annoying if said components are rotated, placed on the finer grid or have other stuff on them.

What I would suggest is a lock-mode of sorts.

When it's active, you can not change any already placed components and only add new ones. This could be switched on and off either via a check-box in the interface or with a dedicated toggle-key accompanied with a UI element that shows whether you are currently in lock mode or not. There's plenty of room for such an indicator at the top left and right of Exit and Launch respectively.

As a bonus this mode might allow to rotate turrets and launchers in place, which would make the rotating process potentially easier.

Edited April 25, 2020 by Norbert Sattler
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