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[Grapjas]

Oh, i completely misread that, i thought we were talking about expanding the radius a villager goes to a new farm if necessary. Because that radius is quite small actually.

[ffm2]

50 minutes ago, DesertRose said:

Would be great to some sort of "Spread evenly" functionality in the base game.

Why though?

It would be 2 developers working against each other.

First develops a game mechanic where each farmer has x0.9 of the efficiency of the former.

Second just optimize the effect automatically to a minimum making it meaningless for the player.

If you like to plan less for your setup, why don't you just suggest to remove the feature that's also not full documented with the numbers?

I'd just keep it as it is, but it should be documented with the numbers clearer.

[Atrik]

49 minutes ago, ffm2 said:

Why though?

It would be 2 developers working against each other.

First develops a game mechanic where each farmer has x0.9 of the efficiency of the former.

Second just optimize the effect automatically to a minimum making it meaningless for the player.

If you like to plan less for your setup, why don't you just suggest to remove the feature that's also not full documented with the numbers?

I'd just keep it as it is, but it should be documented with the numbers clearer.

Make a mod that remove all gui buttons that can be executed with just the mouse (units actions, formations, etc). Also remove selection box since you can always shift+click units when you want to make a multi-selection. You can even remove auto-drop-site deposit and things like that. Surely you'll experience fully the real-time-strategy at it's full potential then. Since real-time obviously means clicking a lot, and anything that allow users to make batch orders are blasphemes.

[Tapothei]

- Sometimes when I want to place a building I want to see the highlight to have gaps, you know how you select a building there is the blue outline? Ye include that, before I want to place it since I intend to leave some gaps for my workers to move in between. Many times do I get blocked by it and I had to destroy the building and redo it even if its free...

- Today I realised in multiplayer I can check resource by hovering to the left topside, here's a problem I never knew about it, you should mention that in tutorial or something... while at it, it needs to be improved, I want to see teammate's resource in one go just like modernGUI by using arrow key of some kind to open/minimise the look. Not that I'm going to to use such mods since I'm more of a vanilla guy.

- If buddy feature exist, there should be enemy. In a sense that player is muted to you, they can still join for fairness sake and they do see their status by you to be aware. Is there even a way to identify easily whose buddy or not in one list just like friend list? Atleast colour them differently... I do forgot how it works though since lobby is a bit mysterious to me, like there is no mention on various commands I can do there... example typing /away.

[Seleucids]

16 minutes ago, Tapothei said:

- Sometimes when I want to place a building I want to see the highlight to have gaps, you know how you select a building there is the blue outline? Ye include that, before I want to place it since I intend to leave some gaps for my workers to move in between. Many times do I get blocked by it and I had to destroy the building and redo it even if its free...

- Today I realised in multiplayer I can check resource by hovering to the left topside, here's a problem I never knew about it, you should mention that in tutorial or something... while at it, it needs to be improved, I want to see teammate's resource in one go just like modernGUI by using arrow key of some kind to open/minimise the look. Not that I'm going to to use such mods since I'm more of a vanilla guy.

- If buddy feature exist, there should be enemy. In a sense that player is muted to you, they can still join for fairness sake and they do see their status by you to be aware. Is there even a way to identify easily whose buddy or not in one list just like friend list? Atleast colour them differently... I do forgot how it works though since lobby is a bit mysterious to me, like there is no mention on various commands I can do there... example typing /away.

Point 1: you can visually check that there is a gap. If you want the units to pass through smoothly, your gap should be large enough to be visually obvious 

Point 2: moderngui is the way to go right now

Point 3: every time you mark someone as buddy, their name is written to a list in user.cfg locally. Nobody else knows who you mark as buddy as this is a purely local action and not synced. If you log in on a different computer, you will loose all of your friends. You can implement an enemy list in a similar way but I recommend you to get along with other players instead 

[Tapothei]

21 minutes ago, Seleucids said:

Point 1: you can visually check that there is a gap. If you want the units to pass through smoothly, your gap should be large enough to be visually obvious 

Point 2: moderngui is the way to go right now

Point 3: every time you mark someone as buddy, their name is written to a list in user.cfg locally. Nobody else knows who you mark as buddy as this is a purely local action and not synced. If you log in on a different computer, you will loose all of your friends. You can implement an enemy list in a similar way but I recommend you to get along with other players instead 

1) Even when it looks like a gap I still get it wrong, I tried many times already its just quite unreliable.

2) I'll ask, does it contain any advantage mechanics or is it just gui being improved and if so, can I turn it off? I only need to see ally resource properly so I don't have to look it up majority of the time.

3) If this game ever increased its popularity then I'll need this feature since there will be some bad apples I'll don't ever want to ruin my mood. Atleast I won't be negatively effected nor would I disturb them.

[DesertRose]

21 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

Do workers tasked on busy farms not already look for spots on nearby farms? Or do you mean that they should automatically distribute to all available farms?

Like, you have 5 Gathers and 3 Farms, and click on 1 Farm that already has 3 Gathers. The gathers will first populate the two other Fields.

But maybe some modifier hotkey to toggle smart Villager allocation on.

20 hours ago, ffm2 said:

Why though?

It would be 2 developers working against each other.

First develops a game mechanic where each farmer has x0.9 of the efficiency of the former.

Second just optimize the effect automatically to a minimum making it meaningless for the player.

If you like to plan less for your setup, why don't you just suggest to remove the feature that's also not full documented with the numbers?

I'd just keep it as it is, but it should be documented with the numbers clearer.

It's more to make the strategic decision to spend more Wood for faster Food production more feasible. Imo such a basic economic decision should not be barred behind a certain APM threshold / having to use a certain mod.

[guerringuerrin]

4 minutes ago, DesertRose said:

Like, you have 5 Gathers and 3 Farms, and click on 1 Farm that already has 3 Gathers. The gathers will first populate the two other Fields.

But maybe some modifier hotkey to toggle smart Villager allocation on.

Right now you can accomplished the same by using the "Order one unit" command (alt by default I think) . You can grab a bunch of units and, by holding the modifier key assigned for this command, send one by one to each farm. like alt+left click 3 times on every farm.
I think a feature similar like this #8525 would also be useful for gathering. It would help with chopping wood as well, since targeting certain trees can be a pain and workers often end up crowding on one side of the woodline.