Some Small Tweaks

from AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Hello !

 

Firstly, i have to say that... FUCK IT THE LEVEL OF AWESOMNESS OF THE GAME IS ABOVE 9000 !!!!

Ok, i started some games, won some, lose lots of oter before getting an understanding on how to beat tought AIs....

 

So anyways would it be so kind to affect the building of extractors around a point just by right clicking on the Big point affiliated ?

Secondly, when we create an army :

Imagine a stream of units are goign east, Eas is attacked.

the begining of this stream of unit are already joining the attacked army.

I select this stream of unit and click on "make army".

And then all the stream is going back, cause the leader which the formation is built upon is the furthest on the west....

now this new army is way too far from the frontline !

Is it possible that the center of the formation is a ponderation between the leader, the direction wanted, and the baricenter of every units position ?

 

in third, is it possible to decide which formation an army would go ? in case i am moving an army, and it goes in march formation, some of the unit will be 1 minutes away from the front, even if i wanna support an attacked army.

 

Will it have map up to 8 - 12 players, non symetrical, made to play FFA - diplomatic warfare ?

 

Thanks !

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

I agree on the army front. It can be frustrating trying to form up sometimes as they will often retreat from the direction you want them to go while forming up.

I think they have said going beyond 6 is hard because of network reasons. Sending positions and movements and projectiles of thousands of units is a lot to pass between everyone. I agree though, allowing up to at least 8 would be great.

 

A quick mention of some other small tweaks i would like.

- Something like in the total war games, where you can click and hold down the mouse to make an army pivot to face the direction you want. Perhaps go further and allow it to lengthen or widen the army too.

- Slightly thicker selection circles around the selected unit or army.

- Press a button to see where the dreadnought is that you have been warned about. This might be in the game already?

- button to find/cycle though idle engineers and one for idle factories too. 

ta

EDIT: one more - A button you can press which speeds up the rate of scrolling over the land. A lot of RTS games have it on SHIFT I believe.

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Quoting tatsujb, reply 3

that's in supcom as well.

Ha, been a long time since I played it but I don't think I ever knew that. I guess you learn something every day, thanks :)

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