So I just played a cool Free For All with 4 other players, and me and another guy were the only one's left. I destroyed the last guy's base on our main planet, and somehow he launched to another planet right before I killed him. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get any unit whatsoever to another planet, and I failed lol. I couldn't get to him. I think all he had left was his commander. He even tried to tell me how to do it, and I still couldn't get it to work. I built an orbital launcher, then I loaded a unit up into the orbital launcher, then I clicked the "s-move" button, and clicked on the planet. I tried several combinations of move + s-move, or s-move + move, right-clicking, left-clicking.....etc etc. How do you command your launcher to another planet?
Build an astraeus, load commander/T2 buildbot/.. in it. Select astraeus. Zoom out to system view. Zoom in to normal view on target planet. Right click somewhere on its surface, I prefer solid ground a unit can drive on but it shouldnt have to be that way. Leftclick somewhere on the planet to deselect the astraeus. Now the transporter should move there. When there, command it to unload the unit. When just commanding it to unload on another planet I had it fail and do nothing at all.
what i do is, i scroll out of the planet im launching from (zoom out) then i point my mouse on the planet that i wanna launch to and scroll into that (zoom in) then i right click on the ground and it will go there. as soon as it arrives it will just hang there so youll have to press the unload button on the right side of the screen. hope this helped Mike
Thanks occusoj. I think my problem, then, was that I don't think I was ever able to properly zoom in/focus on the other planet to the games satisfaction (to the point where it would let me right-click on it). I tried simply right-clicking on the planet several times as it orbited our main planet, but I guess I wasn't "focused" on it properly. I made it out to the system view once, and when I zoomed back in it was on the main planet again. I was trying to zoom in/focus on the other planet and never could. Maybe that's why I couldn't just simply right-click on it? lol. I dunno. I'm not really sure how I got to the system view that one time either. It felt like I just zoomed out incessantly until it was forced to system view, but then I did that multiple times before and it didn't go to system view. With the main planet in my main view, I also had the planet I wanted to go to in the bottom corner of my screen, so that I could actually view the orbiting planets surface up close, I know I tried right clicking on it during the game, and my astraeus did not attempt to move there. It was my first game, with only very minimal experience prior to that, so I guess I can't expect to know how to do everything. Anyways, thanks for the info, hopefully next time I can try what you guys suggest .
Some shortcut keys might help you... pressing [,] will switch what planet you're focused on pressing [..] will bring you out to system view, or back in to the previous planet you were focused on So load up your lander, use the shortcut to switch to another planet, then select "S-move" from the sidebar and left-click on the new planet to give the transfer order. Something else to note is planetary transfer can take a few mins, but you should be able to see the unit icon in system view once it's making its transfer. It is a bit weird at first though.
Hope it helps. There's a keyboard shortcuts section in the settings which might have some more useful ones in there too so maybe go check that out... Actually I should give that a proper look through next time I play too
