I think it would be nice to have auto-scout as a feature. In a lot of games with the feature, some people use it, while many don't. Higher-level players find it doesn't scout as efficiently as they want it to, so they prefer to scout by hand. Lower-level players like the APM it frees up, so they are more likely to use it. I think it's a fine feature. It's something that was desired in the original game design 20 years ago. It would be neat to have it come back. 

Is the removal of this an Issue or Pull Request yet? I agree with removing this redundancy. 

I meant, PR for the background code to make formation bonuses a possibility. The formation bonuses themselves can be a separate PR. 

@Stan`@Itms

Vanilla 0AD?  Better not pull in there unless they have solid plan of formation bonuses.