Easier adding of equipment and personal to the fishing boats ☯️

yusi (SKN1)

When I'm sending my boats out, it takes for ever to go through my inventory and select which 'people' and which equipment to drag to the other side in order to add them to selected boat. And if they are missing you have to go to the shop and click through the countless pages to find the right thing. This is a big mess. I'd love to have an option to make it faster. Like a button that would send all the items that match the chosen boat. Or at least possibility of double clicking on the item to send it to the boat instead of dragging it. 

grrr (NL1)

You don't have to drag the items, hold the shift key and click on the item you want to add, it will fly over there

Artmaker (GB1)

I heard they will be redoing the whole deep sea thing after the new year.  Including some kind of easier way to add stuff to multiple ships  (hope they do that, I'm all for it.)
AND…. making disasters more disasterous so we have to equip the boats.    

yusi (SKN1)

grrr (NL1) said:

You don't have to drag the items, hold the shift key and click on the item you want to add, it will fly over there

Seriously?? Thank you so much for this trick.

itta_itta (INT1)

I feel bored for click click to choose crews and items for each of the 14 boats. Is there any options to build a set of items/crews and then with only 1 click to put the combination to a boat? If I have 5 skipjacks and I want to fill these boats the same items/crews, I expect to just build 1 set and apply to all  

ronin7 (INT1)

that unfortunately is the way it is for now @itta_itta (INT1)  there is talk about a change coming, but like all small changes this too is very low on the priority list...so for now we can only hope & dream of it coming true, but if we wish hard enough it just might... sigh

Skye MacDuell (US1)

I love the idea, but expect it will only be available with the use of gold and therefore not an option I would choose. Similar to the added option to water all coop trees - with gold.

SuzyQ22 (US1)

I wish it was organized far better than it is.  Motorboat, Runabout, etc should all have their men and women on the same page instead of having to arrow over and back just to load the boat.  If I am filling the motorboat everything could be on one page for all crew for that specific boat.  This would make it far less tedious than it is now.  I hate fishing and this part makes me hate it more, lol.  I am only doing it because the money really is there if I do it, but I sure don't like it!

Uncle John (GB1)

I have bought some fishing gear and freezers that I don't use just so that all the Fish per Hour and Fishing Time crew all appear on the same page.  Not perfect but a small improvement.

SuzyQ22 (US1)

Uncle John (GB1) said:

I have bought some fishing gear and freezers that I don't use just so that all the Fish per Hour and Fishing Time crew all appear on the same page.  Not perfect but a small improvement.

Great idea, I have noticed things move around when I add things like that so I'll play around with it and see how I can get things better set up for faster loading.

Update:  I did that, I added items and now it is all setup as it should be.  I'll have to remember to keep things stocked so everything stays on the right page.  So much easier to load boats now.  Thanks for the tip!  Suzy!

Pameow (AU1)

Skye MacDuell (US1) said:

I love the idea, but expect it will only be available with the use of gold and therefore not an option I would choose. Similar to the added option to water all coop trees - with gold.

There is another scenario: They may make it available for all (Non-gold) after somebody  successfully sues them for RSI in the case where loading the boats tips the balance.

chbamb (US1)

If you hold down the shift button and click on the item you want to add to your boat, it automatically adds it to the next available space. Not exactly what you were asking for, but a lot easier than dragging and dropping. I just did it before coming here to post to make sure that it works and it does. Hope this helps. 

SuzyQ22 (US1)

grrr (NL1) said:

You don't have to drag the items, hold the shift key and click on the item you want to add, it will fly over there

This was flawless execution of loading the boats.  Thanks for the tip. 

gizmo22 (AU1)

I don't mind it because at the end of the day it is worth it. Deep sea is one of the only features in the game left where the rewards are worth the effort and I really hope GGS leave it alone. Every time they try to "improve something" it ends up rebalanced and ruined.

Yankee Doodle (AU1)

I agree, gizmo.  During the video interview some months back, someone suggested "preset" buttons.  This would put so many of each type for each boat, is how I understood it.  For example, 7 fishing time crew (ex. Roy for trawler) plus 5 shortened time (Brigitte for trawler).  That could be button "A".  I suppose these buttons could act like macros.  (like ctrl + alt + del to open task manager).

Uncle John (GB1)

I'd settle for a simple "Do this boat the same as the last one" button. A bit like "Sow last seed" on the ring menu.

Grandma Molly (US1)

Equipping boats was too tedious for me, so switched over to ghost boats.

98% of the time, I  send my boats out empty. 

Kinda get a kick that my boats are trained to bring back fish, albeit not much fish.