more than 16 units selected!

[Zoythrus]

i wish that i could select more than 16 units at any one time! why do we even need the buildpics in the corner? why cant we be able to select an unlimited amount of units?

can this be fixed?  its annoying!

[modman]

If you want a new feature, please post it on bugzilla, the topic I made farther down the page, in the GAE subforum, or even PM a coder.  The reason that posting an individual topic for one idea is bad is that no one will look at it often and it will just fall to the 17^th page.  Please post it here.

Personally, I think that topic could be stickied because it holds many of the ideas that people want, and it being stickied means people will use it for its specified purpose.

[Mark]

I agree that it should be stickied.

[hailstone]

I look at every post. There is no need to PM a coder.

[wciow]

why do we even need the buildpics in the corner?

The pictures are useful for seeing which units are selcted at a glance. This is especially true for pre-selected groups.

I think there should only be one picture for each type of unit with a small number indicating how many of that unit are selected.

[Mark]

Yeah.  I have always thought that was best.  Except, then with the spacing Glest alots, there would only be room for 4 unit types.  I have thought about it and it would be best if the unit had it's vital info (HP, energy points and kills) in the upper right hand corner, and below it a box that would appear when you select some units.  Inside this box would be room enough for many units, depending on the size of the screen.  I really think that glest could have a little more interface, because the whole interface is so basic.

Tell me if that doesn't make sense.

[John.d.h]

Personally I like the limitation of only being able to select 16 units.  I feel like it adds a little more strategy and forces you to concentrate on quality over quantity and which units work best with each other, rather than swarming the enemy with everything you have.  I'd at least like the option to keep the limitation intact, perhaps on a per-faction basis if possible.  I think that would be a great way to make different factions play differently (i.e. one is forced to use a limited number of really powerful units while another sends hordes of cannon fodder).

[Mark]

I can totally see where you are coming from, but I am really more of a RTS Fan, and not so much a RPG fan.  I suppose if glest was an RPG it would make sense to have only 16 units, but most RTS allow many more. 

[John.d.h]

I don't know if you've ever played it or not, but Warcraft 3 has a limit of (I think) 12 units you can select at any one time and finding the right combination to suit the situation is a pretty important part of the strategy.

[PolitikerNEU]

True, but I hate this limitation in Warcraft too ... in reality, you don't decide what units to take with you but instead create some unit groups to let all units fit in and then issue every command twice or even three times ...

[-Archmage-]

Guys you can put 160 troops in the 0-9 group selection................

But being able to select more than 16 at a time sounds nice, I propose to have it show the first 16 selected, and then have an arrow pointing out of the left side of the unit icons, and when you click on that arrow, it would add all the other selected units icons to the group, and then have the arrow point in the other direction, so if you clicked on it again the icons would go back to the original 16 icons.

[ElimiNator]

Or you could just have a number of how many of that kind units on the icon, and only select 16 different kind of units.

[-Archmage-]

Or you could just have a number of how many of that kind units on the icon

That's a perfect solution.