Ability to place crafts into subgroups

[Woopert]

Suggestion: Ability to place crafts into subgroups

For many of us who use mods, we tend to have a lot of craft files in our Ships folder. The same applies to stock craft as well --- many of the craft I download I place in the KSP\Ships\VAB folder (or SPH folder as well). This, of course, leads to clutter of the craft loading screen which while not being *completely* a problem, can make things frustrating when searching through that list for a particular craft file. This is why I am suggesting that there be an option to put different crafts into groups --- such as: lifters, spaceplanes, spacecraft, upper stages, downloaded craft, mod craft, etc. You get the point.

It's an idea that I think would improve the quality of play and would improve the building experience, as I know there are many for which their favorite aspect of the game is the building process. Just to see an example of why I feel this feature should be implemented: screenshot of my Ships\VAB folder

I'd like to hear your opinions on this! Of course, it's completely okay if you disagree. That's why we have this community. Speaking of community, if anyone would like to make a plug-in that did this, that would be totally awesome.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Woopert

[Justin Kerbice]

Good idea, reading you, I just imagine kind of a Simple Part organizer or PartCalatog for crafts, in term of UI. in fact PC style would be the best, a place where we could create folders and eventually tags, pick a craft and move it in a given folder, ... With the best bonus feature: a thumbnail of the craft.

So we could sort crafts by mod used (automatically recognized, maybe as tag) or any other criteria.

[Red Iron Crown]

Just giving access to the operating system's built-in file management dialogs would be a great improvement. Custom named folders, saving to different locations (network or cloud locations are great), robust file renaming abilities, etc. No need to reinvent the wheel, just use what every OS has built in.

[TMS]

Pretty sure one of the old pre-0.22 subassembly plugins supported folder browsing.

[Tahib]

I like your idea. I have 396 .craft files in my folder.

[Wanderfound]

I like your idea. I have 396 .craft files in my folder.

I've resorted to keeping a "parking lot" folder outside of the game directory. The only craft that stay in the save file are the half-dozen or so that I'm currently using regularly.

[prophet_01]

Like the idea a lot. For some crafts that are still under devolpment or getting modified from time to time this would be great. I have multiple files for thise since I have a test version and the last fully operational one and sometimes a variant that uses mids. That would help

[Capt Snuggler]

+1 would love to be able to organize my craft.

[Woopert]

I've resorted to keeping a "parking lot" folder outside of the game directory. The only craft that stay in the save file are the half-dozen or so that I'm currently using regularly.

I have many more craft outside of my Ships folder, I don't use them all at once either.