"auto-sniping" thoughts and tests
Why?
I was recently having discussions with some smart community members. I shared with them my reasoning:
Sniping is definitively not, following 0AD vision on Repetition - "If you find yourself doing the same action over and over without thought, then we need to either eliminate or automate such an action. Linear repetitious procedures are meaningless and boring."
Manual sniping is as today, very clearly on the very repetitive end of the spectrum.
Testing if this would be
Throwing aside the effort to develop this, the potential performance costs, the UI clutter, and the difficulty for new players to learn something like this, I think this would be actually harder than using the mouse and hot keys to select and attack. (Aka micro).
There is simply no way it turns new players away. New players don’t experience micro unless they go against a player far better than themselves.
new players get turned away by difficulties in finding matches, performance iss
