[Breaking Ground] Name experiment control stations and KAL-1000s

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• Since experiment control stations show in the tracking station as craft, we should be able to name them. If there are a bunch scattered around the system it would be extremely convenient if we could see which is which just from the sidebar.
• The KAL-1000 can be renamed in the track editor, but it doesn't show with that name when assigning it to an action: all KAL-1000s just show as KAL-1000s. It would be super convenient if they were instead identified by the name assigned to the tracks in the track editor.

 

[Cavscout74]

2 hours ago, Brikoleur said:

Since experiment control stations show in the tracking station as craft, we should be able to name them. If there are a bunch scattered around the system it would be extremely convenient if we could see which is which just from the sidebar

On a related note, it would be nice if you deleted/recovered control stations from the tracking station, the whole setup would get deleted/recovered.  I set up a control station, solar panels, & goo experiment several km's from KSC (next to a Baobab tree actually) a while back.  Once it stopped sending science back, I went to the tracking station & recovered the control station.  But you could still see the target box for the other components from KSC.  Eventually, I sent a rover to pick them all up.  I have another setup on Mun that I didn't have the antenna unit unlocked when I set it up, so it couldn't send data back.  I deleted it in the tracking station (this was before I discovered it only deleted the controller, not everything), but now I can see the other ground  units as I'm departing my Mun base, about 90km northeast.   Now with only 1 or 2 experiment sites, its not bad.  But if you get a bunch of abandoned ground experiments all over the Kerbol system that the game is having to track, I'm sure they will add to slowing the game down.