0015435: Improve templates to automatically use the best available mark, and store ones not yet available

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0015435	AI War 1 / Classic	Suggestion - Interface Ideas - Unit Selection, Management, and Orders		Jun 18, 2014 5:58 am	Jun 18, 2014 5:58 am

Reporter	zharmad	Assigned To
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	7.035

Summary	0015435: Improve templates to automatically use the best available mark, and store ones not yet available
Description	Is there any particular reason, aside from the older code implementation where the riot marks actually do different things, that templates don't always keep to the highest mark you have? I would like for example, to have a set of templates I can load from the start of the game and not have to worry about it later. E.g. I have stored "Laser Cruiser". It contains templates calling for laser cannons with no mark references, instead of the current system in which I have to edit a mark-I template or "reload from disk" again to obtain a mark-II template instead of a mark-I template. E.g. I have a stored template "Sniper Destroyer", although I don't have mark-II sniper turret research unlocked yet. I'd like to have it on the reference template so that I can unlock the related research and immediately be able to build it from the spire shipyards - like the pre-loaded ADV template, - without having to go and make it again / "load from disk". I recognise that this is, e.g., incompatible with the template, modular command stations suggestion - as the higher marks are limited in supply.
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