Question: Is there a way to sort the Population Locations list, and is there a way to force it to group by system? Or an existing screen I've overlooked that lets me do something like this?
I put a suggestion into the suggestions thread a few weeks ago about this very same issue. Feel free to post a "me too" there with your take on it....
Q: is there a better way? Some screen I missed or something that lets me break the task groups dropdown into a more manageable order or subset?
Two suggestion:
1) I have a unique first letter for most of my TG types, so when I hit the letter it goes to the correct region of the list. Not perfect but helps a lot. And yes, I realize you're probably already doing this - I'm just doing the due diligence here
For example, my picket TG (of which I've got scads, since I picket pretty much every WP) are named "zPicket nnn" - this gets them out of the way of the other TG in the list....
2) Use the 4th tab (of F12), Luke. What you might not know is that if you click on a ship in the 4th tab, then it selects that ship's TG in the dropdown. This helps A LOT. If you set up a reasonable TOE, this should save you from quite a bit of nastyness.
John