I want to jump from ship to ship in map mode.
Back in the old days of Tim Host, I would name my ships by area and and issue my ship orders in name order. Then I could issue orders to each group of ships more easily than having to progress down a list of widely scattered ships by ID number - hoping I remembered what I was trying to do in each small area when I got back to it. There is just no convenient way to do this in map mode without risking all sorts of possible errors.
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Lord Helmet commented
Actually there is a solution. It's a nice use case for a userscript called "super filter".
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/132440
(If you need help how to install userscripts or for this special user script, just ask in the forums. Would be easier to help you if you weren't anonymous...)
From the Main menu go to star ships and enter the filter text into the box. The filtered ships will be in the list of the starmap when the filter check box is checked.
Filter text could be something like this ("east" is the part of your ship name you use to group them):
return ship.name.match(/east/g);
or if you use the first 2 letters of the ship name:
return ship.name.substr(0,2)=="eo";There might be even a way to put it in a ship note (not publicly in the ship name) and retrieve it this way, but that's more complicated.