Plans and Overlays should be re-ordered to match up. Also, the ability to select plans entirely with the keyboard.

[gracefool]

I recently started playing ONI, and the first thing that struck me was how overlays and plans don't match up. Re-ordering overlays would make so much more sense for learning the keys.

Currently:
1/F1 Base / Oxygen
2/F2 Oxygen / Power
3/F3 Power / Temperature
4/F4 Food / Materials
5/F5 Plumbing / Light
6/F6 Ventilation / Plumbing
7/F7 Refinement / Ventilation
8/F8 Medicine / Decor
9/F9 Furniture / Germs
0/F10 Stations / Farming
-/F11 Utilities / Room

How much easier to remember would it be as:
1/F1 Base / Room
2/F2 Oxygen / Oxygen
3/F3 Power / Power
4/F4 Food / Farming
5/F5 Plumbing / Plumbing
6/F6 Ventilation / Ventilation
7/F7 Refinement / Materials
8/F8 Medicine / Germs
9/F9 Furniture / Decor
0/F10 Stations / Light
-/F11 Utilities / Temperature

1 & 10 aren't really matchable (and 7 is iffy), but everything else just goes together like it should. This is without changing any of the plans & number keys. Alternatively, without changing any of the overlays & function keys:

1/F1 Oxygen / Oxygen
2/F2 Power / Power
3/F3 Utilities / Temperature
4/F4 Refinement / Materials
5/F5 Stations / Light
6/F6 Plumbing / Plumbing
7/F7 Ventilation / Ventilation
8/F8 Furniture / Decor
9/F9 Medicine / Germs
0/F10 Food / Farming
-/F11 Base / Room

I prefer the former since it's nice to have Base as #1, but whatever floats your puft. Another option would be to keep Base in the first position using the ` key (the key before 1 on a US keyboard), so replace that last line with:
`/F11 Base / Room

 

Whaddya reckon?

 

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Another related feature that would be really nice is secondary plan selection with keys - that is, the ability to use the number keys by themselves to select something to build. For instance if you press 2 and then 1 you would select an oxygen diffuser, or 3, 2 to build wire. This would make it way faster to build things, and many other games do this. The only downside is if you press the first number to select a menu, and then change your mind - but you could just select anything (e.g. 1), or press escape, to start again.

[Yoma_Nosme]

18 hours ago, gracefool said:

Another related feature that would be really nice is secondary plan selection with keys - that is, the ability to use the number keys by themselves to select something to build. For instance if you press 2 and then 1 you would select an oxygen diffuser, or 3, 2 to build wire. This would make it way faster to build things, and many other games do this. The only downside is if you press the first number to select a menu, and then change your mind - but you could just select anything (e.g. 1), or press escape, to start again.

This was proposed sooo often...still agree 100%