Tracking station improovement (mission)

[Warzouz]

Context

The Tracking station helps finding objects and swap between them. When playing with few ships in space, the tracking station is somewhat good. But when you play multiple mission at the same time, the object list is terrible.

Issue

The ship list only displays ships by date of creation. An old space station spliting a lander (undock) will create a new ship at the bottom of the list, not near the original ship

Finding ships in that list is hard. There is no filter (seems to be in 1.1, though), no sorting, no grouping

There is no "Mission" per say, only ships.

Further more, there should be some simplified KAC features in that screen. Alarms on nodes are absolutely necessary when you play multiple ships.

Solution

Adding a new field to a ship description : "Mission" (and why no a real description)

"Mission" can be edited as the name of the ship. It's a simple text

Add a one level ship group by "Mission" name to the ship list in tracking station. This grouping could be optional (grouping by mission or no grouping)

The Ship list would be sorted by mission and then by creation date/ID by default

Allow sorting by name, ship type, launch ID (launch date), ship ID (creation date)

BTW

Is there a mod that do something related ?

[pandaman]

Yes, more flexible sorting of the tracking station flights would be a good thing.

A 'folder' type system (as has been mention several time before) would IMHO be a good solution.  Then we could arrange things exactly how we want and show/hide flights by folders as required. 

[Warzouz]

BTW, I found this mod that seems to do something related

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/81114-10x-2015-04-28-haystack-continued-v0410/#comment-1326197

[Warzouz]

Oups, the Filtering I hoped in 1.1 is not about searching ships in tracking station but searching parts in VAB/SPH. My bad.