Area build spacing hotkey?

[ConAnd81]

Can't find anything about this online, so here goes.

This is specifically about Anchor.

Problem: When building the Anchors and I drag out the area where I want them, for some reason, they are spaced super tightly and their fire-archs overlap like crazy... that's cool and all, if I really -Really- want to defend a place, but I now have to build something like 40 Anchors, instead of 9, to cover the same area of my base. That'll take too long to build and strain my early eco too much. Is there a hotkey to change this?

Context: I mostly play Galactic War and I usually drag out and build a 3x3 box of Anchors above my base asap, this usually gives ample coverage and defence against early raids.

Also, ahem, I had a slight tantrum yesterday, mashed the keyboard in frustration a few times, so I could've possibly pressed some keycombo that changed something. Kinda weird that it would transfer between games tho.
And yes, I've tried mashing the keyboard again, gently, does nothing.

Another theory I have is that each planet/map are different and each have inherent spacings and that I'm simply stuck with whatever spacing the map offers.

I'll just place them manually in the meantime, which is needlessly tedious and error-prone, but what else can I do? Any help appreciated.

[Lula Mae]

For any given spacing, the smaller the planet, the greater the overlap on the ground.

[ConAnd81]

Drats! Was really hoping that was not the case, kinda' unusable on small planets then. Will either take ages to build or take ages to place manually(luckily you can pause in PvE)

Guess they favor the spacing in space over the spacing on ground to not let orbitals slip through, so I'm assuming they keep optimal spacing on the orbital grid and F all how tight the spacing is on the ground... and given that I mostly use it for ground defense I find that kinda' irritating.

Cheers for the quick and concise answer, much appreciated!

[Lula Mae]

Originally posted by ConAnd81:

Drats! Was really hoping that was not the case, kinda' unusable on small planets then. Will either take ages to build or take ages to place manually(luckily you can pause in PvE) :steamdeadpan:

Guess they favor the spacing in space over the spacing on ground to not let orbitals slip through, so I'm assuming they keep optimal spacing on the orbital grid and F all how tight the spacing is on the ground... and given that I mostly use it for ground defense I find that kinda' irritating.

Cheers for the quick and concise answer, much appreciated! :wollove:

The spacing and weapon range is the same, independent of planet size. But when directed downwards to the surface of a *spherical* planet, the "effective" range at the surface is greater on very small planets which give you greater overlap.

As for spacing when queuing an AREA build, you will have range overlap when queuing a 3x3 & 5x5 grid, but larger grids than that and the spacing increases such that you have zero overlap in weapons range. You can see this on the ground when queuing by looking at the red range circles.

Jigs have the same spacing behavior when ordering an area build.