we need Idle Engies and Factories UI window

I mean in FA(F) you have a UI window that tells you if you have an Idle Engie or Factorie and this could be here on PA as well...

yes

We do.

In the meantime, there's a keyboard shortcut that does this. I've customized all mine, but I'm pretty sure the default is "f"

I would have thought this would be achievable through a mod? I've not seen one for it yet though...

Nope. We have no access to the answer of the question "Which factory/fabber is idle?" All we have that hotkey, but afaik it selects ALL of them at once which is horrible.

its kinda weird in that sometimes it will select them all, sometimes it will select groups of fabbers. I'm pretty sure what it does is select all idle fabbers within a given radius of the first one it finds that is idle

I personally wouldn't mind a key to cycle through all fabbers, not just idle ones. Like a 'technically' idle fabber that is just moving to its rally point, or one that is currently assigned to building pgens but you've just realised you've hit your energy goal and you need it to build/assist something else.

Unless you're playing huge orbital games you rarely have more than a few fabbers anyway, right? It'd be nice to have a hotkey to cycle through them.

+1