At present, changing the heat output of your ship is a fiddly affair, having to navigate through the systems window and disable individual items.
I wondered about the possibility of presets for what was on and what was off, but then realised there was a simpler way.
Allow the player to control how much power their reactor is putting out (between 0-100%). This could be bound to an up/down set of keys or one of the many rotary controls on Saitek joysticks for example.
Then by setting the priority groups on your systems, you could easily turn off your equipment in stages by powering down your reactor to the appropriate degree.
Voila, easier heat signature management without the frustrating and error prone current method but hopefully relatively simple to implement.
I wondered about the possibility of presets for what was on and what was off, but then realised there was a simpler way.
Allow the player to control how much power their reactor is putting out (between 0-100%). This could be bound to an up/down set of keys or one of the many rotary controls on Saitek joysticks for example.
Then by setting the priority groups on your systems, you could easily turn off your equipment in stages by powering down your reactor to the appropriate degree.
Voila, easier heat signature management without the frustrating and error prone current method but hopefully relatively simple to implement.
