Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but a cursory search didn't turn anything up.
With all the advances made in FSO, pressing T to cycle through everything in sensor range seems a little primitive and clumsy. Currently, the alternative is to pause the game with F4, breaking the flow the the gameplay, in order to assign hotkeys.
What if it were possible to select a from an in-flight menu? Perhaps it could work like the command menu, using numbers for navigation. It might be arranged, for example, like this:
Allegiance > Category > Class > Wing > Designation
eg, Friendly > Transports > GTT Argo > Iota > Iota 1
It wouldn't be the fastest way to target in every circumstance, but this would make it much easier to find a specific ship in a mission with dozens of diverse objects; sentry guns, containers, and the like. Obviously, liberal use of the 0.(More) option would be made in some missions more than others.
Is this kind of thing possible in FSO, without having to add a value to every ship's table?
