We Really Need a Way to Easily Select Units by Type

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by brianpurkiss, January 29, 2014.

  1. stormingkiwi

    stormingkiwi Post Master General

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    Bear in mind that a lot of the time, most players can mean followers of Zaphod(the Next Galactic President)X.

    As far as I recall.

    Ctrl+ Shift F6 - all combat units in existence.

    C+S F7 - ALL land combat units.
    C+S F8 - your airforce.
    C+SF9 - Your navy.

    Shift F number does the same, restricted to units only on screen.

    Right click deselects, left click selects. And I want a reduce selection by half hotkey too.

    Note that I am eternally confused about the difference between a navy and an airforce. So if those hotkeys don't do what you expect, I got it wrong.

    Note I would have linked the Gamepedia Wiki page, but some deplorable creature has edited that page so it is now incomplete and inaccurate, while previously being correct
  2. bobucles

    bobucles Post Master General

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    wtf who uses middle mouse? Double tap selection # > all.
  3. brianpurkiss

    brianpurkiss Post Master General

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    Other hotkeys have no real bearing on this since this only activates while I'm clicking and dragging.

    And that's exactly what I want implemented. :-D

    When you select units, the units that you have selected show up on the bottom left. Right click on a unit icon to deselect all units of that type.
  4. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Wow. Just wow. Respect that you can handle playing with such a thing.
  5. arthursalim

    arthursalim Active Member

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    Simple use the war3 selection ui once you clicked twice in a specific unit with your left mouse buttom all the units of that kind in a range shall be selected at the same time you can customize the range in the game menu soo it can cover all your screen or the entire planet

    Good day
  6. darac

    darac Active Member

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    I think all we need is a modifier key that works like shift drag select, except instead of selecting everything only selects units of the already selected type. That way I can grab one fabber and then drag select the rest out of a group or one fighter and drag select the rest without grabbing the bombers ect.
  7. carlorizzante

    carlorizzante Post Master General

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    Thanks! :D
  8. brianpurkiss

    brianpurkiss Post Master General

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    Any time.
  9. EdWood

    EdWood Active Member

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    I think in general it is a good idea... sometimes you are not able, even if zoomed out to select orbital fabbers... then you have to change the camera angle to see them, then you can select them... tedious sometimes... so selecting certain types of fabbers via hotkey or whatever... would be really nice.
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