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[0.86] [UI suggestion] Control of multiple Army stacks on the strategic map. Currently too chaotic.

February 27, 2012 9:13:07 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

 

When there are multiple army stacks on the strategic map with moves left, the control is chaotic when:

                Two armies combine.

                One of your armies attack an enemy.

 

After the said action, the UI can take control of an army not involved with the action.  This forces me to zoom and reselect the previous army.  It would be nice if the last army to have an acted would stay selected when it can still act.

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eaglejk
Publius of NV
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Reply #1 February 27, 2012 9:19:40 PM
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Deselecting the "Auto Select Next Unit" in the game options might help avoid that.

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Reply #2 February 28, 2012 2:43:46 AM
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but i never got is it intended for multi armies to stack on the same tile or a bug?

 

i really dont like it

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Reply #3 February 28, 2012 2:52:38 AM
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Quoting Publius of NV,
reply 1
Deselecting the "Auto Select Next Unit" in the game options might help avoid that.

We need a button on the UI to get to the next unit that has moves.

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Reply #4 February 28, 2012 10:35:51 AM
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Quoting ddd888,
reply 2
i really dont like it

Agree, at the least we need to know easily how many armies are stacked. The AI stacks like 3-6 mostly identical armies.

Quoting vieuxchat,
reply 3
We need a button on the UI to get to the next unit that has moves.

Agree

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Reply #5 February 28, 2012 10:53:24 AM
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Quoting vieuxchat,
reply 3
We need a button on the UI to get to the next unit that has moves.

While a button would be nice I think pressing spacebar does this.

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Reply #6 February 28, 2012 11:02:02 AM
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Spacebar skips the turn of the currently selected unit, iirc

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Reply #7 February 28, 2012 1:50:02 PM
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And I don't like shortcuts (unless for Enter = end of turn), I prefer something that can be played only with mouse (so I can drink a beer while playing ).

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Reply #8 February 28, 2012 1:56:59 PM
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I think certain games did it well where you click on the tile and it tells you the armies that are on the tile.

First you click on the tile, and move soldiers from one army to another, then you select an army and go!

 

also maybe something simple like the comma or period button on a keyboard could move to next unit with moves left.

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Reply #9 February 28, 2012 2:36:50 PM
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Pressing tab selects the next unit with moves left.
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Reply #10 February 28, 2012 4:25:10 PM
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I play with auto select next unit and auto turn both off (mostly to avoid hangs on XP) and tabbing does select the next unit with moves, while space skips the unit's turn and enter ends the turn.  It would be nice to have a method of combining two armies on the same space.  Right now you have to move one army to another square, then move the other into it to combine.  Didn't WoM have this option?

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Reply #11 February 28, 2012 4:54:31 PM
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I don't know how anyone could play with auto-select next unit on.  It's infuriating.  

Tab does the trick, though there should likely be a UI button as well for those that don't know the hot keys. 

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Reply #12 February 28, 2012 7:03:27 PM
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Didn't know I could turn auto-select next unit off.

I move a pioneer to the tile I want. Sudden pop. I'm now looking at another of my units on another part of the map. Argh!!

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