[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/feature-requests/415 Item 415] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:20:07

Equipping each single soldier with lots of small items by dragging and dropping is a traditional part of the game and fun in its own way, but it can become quite tedious for a larger number of soldiers and 'incidents' (killed / wounded). Most of the time, I use a small set of equipment patterns for my soldiers and apply some little variations for individuals.

I suggest to make a quicksave function for equipment patterns: If the player presses CTRL-<number> while in the equipment screen, the equipment for the soldier (or airplane) currently displayed are saved to disk. If the player presses <number>, the soldier/plane is equipped with these same items bound to this key.

Example: Equip a &#039;Sniper&#039; with rifle, ammo, grenades and armour once, hit &#039;CTRL-1&#039;. Whenever you want another soldier equipped the same way, simply press &#039;1&#039;. If the old pattern needs to be updated, load it with &#039;1&#039;, make the changes, press &#039;CTRL-1&#039;.

Ten patterns should be more than sufficient. This would save the player a lot of time spent in the equipment screen without reducing his variety of equipment options.
===== Comments Ported from Sourceforge =====

====== geever (2009-07-26 19:00:10) ======

I don&#039;t think the engine support CTRL+x keycodes.

Equipment templates/profiles/patterns is a planned feature: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1535248&group_id=157793&atid=805245

Please look around before posting an FR.

Btw. Did you try righr-click? In base equipment menu you can use right mouse click to equip an item. Combined with 1-8 keys for changing soldiers you can equip them quickly.

-geever