Have you accidentally blown up your own commander?

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by Cryonicfire, July 3, 2013.

  1. Cryonicfire

    Cryonicfire Member

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    I've seen some people accidentally kill there commander by pressing the delete button. An idea to fix this is when you accidentally press delete on your commander, the game will ask you (Are you sure you want to kill your commander? Yes OR No?). This might help some people that have softer keys.
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  2. garat

    garat Cat Herder Uber Alumni

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    Don't press delete. :)
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  3. bgolus

    bgolus Uber Alumni

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    Sounds like you need to find a keyboard with a stronger constitution.


    More serious answer is it probably needs some kind of confirmation or a modifier key combination to reduce accidental presses.
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  4. DeadStretch

    DeadStretch Post Master General

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    I hardly, if ever, press my delete key. Or in this case is delete key also the same as backspace?
  5. infuscoletum

    infuscoletum Active Member

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    Never accidentally. For fun sometimes vs the ai, but i mostly stay away from delete, and chronocam, as a general rule. This might change now with the possibility of needing to erase mexes for advanced ones, but i don't expect it to right away.
  6. daemonicknight

    daemonicknight New Member

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    A good idea supcom2 had was the countdown was actually displayed on the screen above the unit.
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  7. nlspeed911

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    That was in Forged Alliance too, if I remember correctly. Unsure about Supreme Commander - I'd imagine it was there, but it could be a Forged Alliance feature.
  8. rorschachphoenix

    rorschachphoenix Active Member

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    Yeah... we need the countdown back. I think this is not a problem.
  9. iampetard

    iampetard Active Member

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    5 second visible countdown, if you press delete again it cancels itself.
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  10. Cryonicfire

    Cryonicfire Member

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    I like that idea:p
  11. Omegacomet

    Omegacomet New Member

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    I have done it on accident only once and that was by freak accident it was hilarious. I would like some kind of countdown and someway to cancel it.
  12. infuscoletum

    infuscoletum Active Member

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    delete = f10+n?
  13. supremevoid

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    This^
  14. Clopse

    Clopse Post Master General

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    Yeah ta has the 5 second countdown/cancel. a 3 second countdown for mexes was added to a mod which I thought was a nice touch.
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  15. hixday93800

    hixday93800 Member

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    I vote for this
  16. xxj0emamaxx

    xxj0emamaxx New Member

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    How about we let people die from the evil delete key. It would be funny to see that in a major tournament :D
  17. brianpurkiss

    brianpurkiss Post Master General

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  18. nachtfaenger

    nachtfaenger New Member

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    I may have missed something, but why would you want to delete mexes to upgrade it ?
    Isn't building a T2 over a T1 the best option ?
  19. sycspysycspy

    sycspysycspy Active Member

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    Make the self destruct key more complex such as ctrl + alt + delete.
  20. Geers

    Geers Post Master General

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    How do you accidently press delete?
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