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[liran1234567]

@ZingySpider5578

@liran1234567

Attack move on a specific unit - Before the patch attack move on a specific target behaved exactly like right clicking a target, what it did was focus all the fire on that specific target and sometimes overhitting it after the target was already eliminated, we thought that two different attack functions that do the same are a waste, and redesigned attack move on a specific unit type to target all the units of the same type.

Example: before the patch right clicking a spearman while controlling longbows would command all the longbows to kill that spearman, the same goes for preforming an attack move on that spearman.
Now - preforming an attack move on a spearman will make all your longbows attack only spearmen.
If you want to do focus fire you can just right click the unit just as before.

You will no longer need to manually select and kill all the springalds one by one, you can now save this important time during a fight and just perform an attack move on a single springald and your army will attack them all one by one with maximum efficiency.

I believe this would decrease player interaction, leaving battles very automatic, these small player errors are what shift the balance in the middle of battle.

I really understand the concern of decreasing player interaction, but you need to set a limit for this stuff.
Manually selecting 10 springalds during a fight with shift-queueing is stupid, if I want to kill all springalds I’m forced to do 10 mouse clicks, you have to be able to give this kind of commands easier, it’s more realistic.

Also it goes much further than that, players can bring a ram forward and basically ‘force’ all the archers to shoot it due to attack move bad algorithm that targets only the closest unit, the only way to avoid shooting the ram is to manually focus fire on single units one by one, which is very inefficient and will overkill units.

@ZingySpider5578

@liran1234567

Villagers production queue will always appear on the screen to prevent players for consistently be in the need to switch for their TCs all the time in order to make sure they keep creating vills (this can be turned off in settings but will be turned on by default)

Military production queues will stay the same and will be placed above new vill production queue.

This question enters into the player’s skill, the more attentive player, who can multitask, is a better player, automating this would be a nerf in multitasking players.

Again you want to keep strategy make things reasonable, I didn’t suggest making an ‘auto villager producing’ feature, I only said we need the villagers production queue to be visible all time, so we will not need to switch to it every second to check how many villagers are in queue (like you see many streamers do), it’s just looking bad they have to do this all the time.

[gongalone]

Larping gone slightly too wild

[liran1234567]

If my English was decent enough it could be better, but the funny part was one of the readers that complained he believed that it’s a real patch and asked to change the title lol.