Unit Selection user Interface

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by kopig, September 26, 2014.

  1. kopig

    kopig New Member

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    I would love to see a similar interface like in SupCom where you could see (the amount) and easily select your idle and/or busy engineers sorted by type (air, bot, vehicle, sea) and by Tech level.
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  2. schuesseled192

    schuesseled192 Active Member

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    And factories, and change by planet, and notify by planet.
  3. zihuatanejo

    zihuatanejo Well-Known Member

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    I would just generally like to see for more specific selections to be made, for instance:

    select only bots when defining an area (that is, clicking and dragging)
    or only vehicles and air..

    I mentioned in another thread having modifier keys for unit type and using them before making a selection. Not entirely sure how the game chooses what units get selected. It seems to be somewhat intelligent, but some more control would be great. I find selecting units fiddly sometimes, particulary air units when they are moving. Always have to select a bomber and a hummingbird as best i can and then ctrl+z at a certain zoom level.

    Anyway. More control for unit selection would be nice :)
  4. schuesseled192

    schuesseled192 Active Member

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    You can just select everything and click on the type of unit you'd like to give orders to at the bottom. (I don't think there's a quick way to do this for multiple unit types, you'd have to deselect all the types you dont want.)
  5. Aliessil

    Aliessil Active Member

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    Have a look in the Settings at available keybinds - there's a load of options available which don't have keys assigned by default.
  6. zihuatanejo

    zihuatanejo Well-Known Member

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    Woah! I'm gonna have to try that now! :p
  7. zihuatanejo

    zihuatanejo Well-Known Member

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    I have spent a lot of time in the Settings->Keyboard section, damn sure there is nothing like what i'm describing. But @schuesseled192's tip above might well help towards that :)

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