Suggestion to steal from Spring RTS Engine

At first apologies to the Mods if this has been requested already but I have no idea how you would name this feature so I didn't search the forum... But to the point: Does anyone here know this neat feature of Spring RTS where you can draw a line on the ground to let your units move up to form a firing line ? I found it to be really practical because you don't have to select small groups and let them all move up in parallel spearheads and its more freeform and ad hoc than formations.
If you know the feature I talk about post your thoughts or maybe explain it better than me. And perhaps vote. (I will ad a screenshot later - im at work now - just wanted to post it before I forget it again)

Pretty sure I heard someone mention formations in the last livestream Line formation will prob be one of them. If that is what you mean.

Not exactly. In spring you can actually DRAW out a front formation in any shape you want as your a-move or simple move. It can be in any shape and any length and ideally the units even form rows behind each other if the line (or curve or circle or whatnot) is to short for them all (well ok im not rly sure anymore if the rows thing worked that well in spring or at all - but it would be desirable to work that way )

There will be formations in the game, but I don't know if they have said (or decided) exactly how that will work. One of the features I am most looking forward to though is the ability to use an attack area command and have units intelligently make decisions about what to attack, whether to focus their fire, and possibly even when to fall back a slight distance. If they can do this right, it might even replace the need for formations entirely for me.

Actually @GoogleFrog posted this topic about Spring / Zero-K features:
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/ideas-from-zero-k.34222/

Hi, I play spring allot and I can tell you this mode is called 'custom formations' and is an improvement they made to spring some time ago.

This have been brought up in a number of threads (however I can accept you'd not be able to find it if you don't know the name!), along with other options from spring such as area commands.

We know the next update to PA will include area commands and they have confirmed formations (although not the exact form at this stage). I think it's quite likely custom formations will make the cut as once you've used it anything else just seams counter intuitive, and the Zero K team from spring have had some influence over PA so fingers crossed this makes it in.

Lol SXX you just beat me to it!

Look @ the latest stream @ 39:18

Mavor confirms this pretty much exactly.
Pay close attention in the livestreams, they are packed with important info.

Well thats cool knowing its considered or pretty much anounced - thanks for the input and not flaming me to death since this has come up a lot as it seems.

Oh and one other thing: why wouldn't you want the feature?
- To the ppl who voted no.

You want to speak about formations and areacommands?
Then make it clear istead of putting some dubious
Titles and poles in ...
This has been talked a lot before you could have just searched through the forums ... yes it is a bit of a pain but having 100s of the same copythread is also a bit of a pain ...
try to focus information on one point and dont spread it all over the forums ...

It probably won't be in our first release of area commands, but as stated, it is in the plans.