Place new parts in empty stage (or selected stage) slots automatically

[Pedro29]

Hello fellow space explorers,

I have another stupid yet simple idea to improve rocket building:

When an empty slot is created in the staging sequence (with [+] UI button), next part added to the ship should go in this slot instead of going to the default place.

Or better, if stages could be selected, the part would go in the selected staging slot.

That would lighten the burden of reorganizing the sequence every time a part is added.

[Kasuha]

I like this idea. There is slight chance someone might leave an empty staging slot in the sequence by accident but I think it is not large enough to become serious annoyance.

Of course I assume that all stages of whatever I am appending to the ship would go "into this empty slot" so if I'm adding a 3-staged subassembly, it would put these three stages at that place.

Yes I think that would be quite useful.

[Pedro29]

I don't know what are the plans for the construction interface actual, this suggestion is quite small (I have already proposed another small improvement for it).

But if there is room for more, I would go for a complete overhaul of the staging construction to make it really user friendly, like, a smaller model of the ship on a secondary UI that would allow direct drag'n'drop of the stages in the sequence, selection of multiple stages, grouping, etc (a lot of small suggestions that were already proposed would easily fit in).

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