quote: do I really have to deselect factory 1 by mouse clicking somewhere? |
Yes. You can mess with the UI options (or suggest some extra ones), but deselecting first is the default. Off the top of my head you could try any of:
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Disable factory grid hotkeys.
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Rebind the Select Factory keys to something that does not conflict with construction.
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Rebind Select Factory to ctrl+Q, ctrl+W, ctrl+E... since ctrl disables grid hotkeys.
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Find or suggest an option to make alt disable grid hotkeys.
These actions can mostly be taken somewhere in Menu/Hotkeys. Disabling grid hotkeys may require Menu/Settings/HUD Panels with Simple Settings unticked (bottom right of the menu).
I don't know how many people use the factory selection hotkeys. It was not bound by default for quite a while. When I bound it personally I set it to Alt+Q because my only use-case is:
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Think: I need more constructors.
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Mash Alt+Q a few times.
Adding a unit to a factory queue with alt held inserts the order to the front of the queue (without replacing the current construction) and makes it non-repeatable. This makes alt good for making a few one-off units in addition to a factories usual queue.
Later I added Alt+Q to the defaults, and added Alt+WERTY.. because they were there.