Easy Parallelisation: Killing lots of micro with one stone.

Re: Easy Parallelisation: Killing lots of micro with one sto

People who don't understand the need for this just aren't comprehending how powerful of a tool it is.

Especially mixing this up with patrols, whoa.

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I think it is the opposite: People who dont think this feature will be helpful have realized that often you need to tweak such things a bit and a build in system is just not flexible enough.

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This is an interesting thread. It gave me an idea actually.

Unit control is one of the most important parts of any rts. And a streamlined way, outside of manually selecting your groups or using hot keys like in TA, is paramount. But TA also offered options like control-z to select many units of the same type, or control-s (one of my favorite) for selecting all units on screen.

I think it would be worth pursuing a modifier key that can be used to create similar controls, but to do it much more time efficiently. Perhaps when clicking a unit or a small group out of the horde on screen you could gain the ability to select a percentage of units on screen and a shortcut to giving them a hot key. Instead of selecting all the units you want in group 1 Hot key, give the option to create both groups at the same time using a kind of sorting style. For example you hit control w to select all attack units then you click shift, or control or something similar and it gives you options to split the total units based on proximity, class, or purpose. Or perhaps just the option to split the total units in half into two group hotkeys. I would like to see things a bit more streamlined in this way because not every gamer is going to be able to keep their actions per minute up to par with the experts and this would take away a slight bit of tedium with regards to hot keyed groups.

Sorry for the poor examples I think, this iPhone makes it difficult to put thoughts together as I would be more comfortable typing from a computer keyboard. Let me know what you guys think.

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Here is another person's take on that same idea:
viewtopic.php?f=61&t=34620
http://planetaryannihilation.shoutwiki. ... _Subgroups

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Thanks for the reply. Yeah that's pretty cool too.

The more I read this thread the more I like it. There are a lot of great ideas appearing here.