Advanced Build Mode: Drag Select Feature

[Blaza612]

Often times, when devouring a massive station, I have noticed that it is a pain to harvest all of the blocks easily, so I suggest that there be a way in advanced build mode, to Click 'n' Hold 'n' Drag™ from one block to the other, creating a 3D selection cube, as if it were an RTS, but in Starmade. The blocks selected could either be replaced, deleted or copied, allowing larger areas than 10x10x10 to be copied. This would speed up the building process significantly and allow people to very conveniently do otherwise repetitive and boring tasks.

Hopefully I got the message through properly, this was kind of hard to explain. :p

 

[iceman6491]

you can increase the size of the advanced build mode upper limits in the server cfg. Although be warned, doing 100X100X100 box operations can have adverse consequences

 

[Lancake]

Hm, it might be useful but for 3D area boxes it can be tricky to implement, and probably just be really frustrating to use accurately. I would like to stick with the sliders, maybe adding keybinds to alter them without moving your mouse is better although I'm not sure about that.

 

[Malacodor]

I suggest that there be a way in advanced build mode, to Click 'n' Hold 'n' Drag™ from one block to the other, creating a 3D selection cube

You might want to support this suggestion.

 

[NeonSturm]

Just (not replace sliders but) add x2, x4, x8, x16 shortcut links.
I have a suggestion about this:

• 1 click to change all 3 dimensions.
• Box aligns to xyz%2,4,8,16 instead of xyz%2 (% is the modulo operator in Java).

This alone would help a lot not only while salvaging.