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How do you suggest that units that move at different speeds should "move as a group" without moving at the speed of the slowest unit? |
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I mean units should move as a group and stick together. I suggest looking at the way Stardock does it, because the way fleets/armies work in their games is more what I expect. Scenario: If my Assault Starship spee d (600) is moving with my Ark (speed 400) and my Plasma Siege Starship (400), and they are together, I want them to move in formation. I.e. I want my Assault starship to remain in proximity to the Plasma Siege Starship. Let's say you put them in Pursuit Mode. Now the Assault Starship will pick a target and the PSS/Ark will pick a different target. They will head in two separate directions. Now they are no longer moving as a group, they are each doing their own thing individually. I want them to act as one coherent unit and move to similar places while attacking similar targets. See attached screenshot: Pursuit and Group Move . You can clearly see that my Assault Starship, which is still in group move with my PSS, is further away from where I want it to move to. That means it will travel at speed 400, the speed of the slowest unit. However, it is further away from the target location, so it could move at its full speed of 600. Further once they are together, I put them back into Pursuit mode, and my assault starship picks a target, my PSS picks a target, and both immediately starts travelling at 90° to the direction of the other because that's the geometry of the targets. What I want them to do is coordinate and be coherent, so that they don't go across the gravity well and solo one target that they could have taken on together. It's also a problem with fleet-ship swarms. See screenshot: Different Targets The issue is that units of different speeds don't move in a coordinated and coherent manner, and this rather detracts from the automation tool. I feel that units which stick together have increased chances of survival. Pursuit and Group Move.png (125,990 bytes) Different Targets.png (224,474 bytes) |
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Thank you for the suggestion on improving group actions. |
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We've made some adjustments to this to be better, but overall it's not something that fits with the style of how the units work. |
- Anonymous
