Revert adding Energy Storage to PGen Hotbuild Bind?

[IceDreamer]

Seems there's a little disagreement here. I didn't see any harm adding it when it was suggested, just seemed handy, but hey I've been wrong before!

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/issues/2008

http://www.strawpoll.me/13007915

[JaggedAppliance]

I'll just copy paste what I said on github:
You can already bind energy storage to a hotkey. It is rarely built. It is also the same size as a t1 pgen so it is very easy to miss your mistake if you start building them. The pgen hotkey is one of the most often used hotkeys in the game so it doesn't make sense to have some like energy storage mixed in there, its only relation is that it has energy in the name.

If you do accidentally build storage early and don't catch it straight away you lose the game.

[Farmsletje]

i didn't have any room for storage hotkey so i like it

[PhilipJFry]

i didn't have any room for storage hotkey so i like it

this is basically the reason why i made that PR
i tried to make a mod to create a hotkey for the old pgen hotkey after 2 ppl mentioned that they liked it better they way it was before but i can't code ...

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a system where the user can create hotkeys in the game through the ui would be amazing but that would require a lot of work

[JaggedAppliance]

Most people have e storage as a template so they would not save a key with this. You can also set energy storage as its own hotkey as well already.

[PhilipJFry]

Most people have e storage as a template so they would not save a key with this. You can also set energy storage as its own hotkey as well already.

you have any data to back that up?
and even if what is the difference between going through all pgens to get to the storage instead of using a template hotkey to do it?
using one key just for the e storage is kinda dumb considering that you don't build them a lot

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to me this issue seems more of an "i don't like change so i want the old thing back" to be honest

[Farmsletje]

What's the downside to this btw?

[Turinturambar]

What's the downside to this btw?

ppl Building accidental Storages at the start of the game -> instaloose

[JaggedAppliance]

Most people have e storage as a template so they would not save a key with this. You can also set energy storage as its own hotkey as well already.

you have any data to back that up?
and even if what is the difference between going through all pgens to get to the storage instead of using a template hotkey to do it?
using one key just for the e storage is kinda dumb considering that you don't build them a lot

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to me this issue seems more of an "i don't like change so i want the old thing back" to be honest

No need to put it as you do at the end, you should at least listen. Putting something that's built once, if it all, in most games on the same hotkey that is one of the most used is dumb when accidentally building the wrong thing which you almost never want can kill you. E storage is not useful enough to be put with pgens. The only reason it's put there is because it has to do with energy and it's not on another hotkey. That's the logic. I saw it happen twice already that people built storage instead of pgens, it will cost you a game.

[PhilipJFry]

I just talked to keyblue and he was so nice to make a mod to overwrite the current pgen hotbuild hotkey to remove the e-storage
so if you want to use that until the change is reverted i'll just add the mod to this post