Feature Allow selecting multiple warships with keybinding (default shift)

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

If there is a enemy warship, i want to send multiple ships to destroy them to reduce the risk one of them will get destroyed (the more i send the lower is the risk). it takes a while to select all the ships and it might be easy to forget which ships you already sent.

Describe the solution you'd like

Holding the shift key will allow selecting a rectangle, that will allow selecting multiple ships and sending them to a single place.

Describe alternatives you've considered

no alternative.

Additional context

iirc other RTS games have this.

[Lako-Lako]

Related to #3049

[baculinivan-web]

Would you like a one by one selection (like holding shift and clicking on a few items in files on a computer, or a selecting rectangle (like selecting a lot of files on the desktop) the rectangle would likely comlicate the ui, so i think holding and clicking would be a better solution

[Lako-Lako]

Shift just to select multiple would at least for me miss the most important problems, of finding and selecting the warships. In high stress situations where you need a ship quickly it can be difficult to hit the ship because of its random movement. At the same time later in the game your ships might be spread really far and searching for them takes more time than is worth.

What do you think of shift + num to select the closest num ships (with 0 being all or something)? It would make the num key multi purpose but other than that I thik it would be the best idea.

[baculinivan-web]

Maybe add a keybinding to move all ships to the point ? Press shift and click on the point you want all your ships in

[baculinivan-web]

@Lako-Lako check my pr out. i think it turned out great

[iiamlewis]

Added to roadmap