Goodnight everyone. It’s my first thread, so I’m going to introduce myself. I am currently a 1700 player in the DE, originally from Argentina. I will try to be as concrete as possible. I was thinking and it occurred to me how good it would be to have a selective selection of villagers combining the double click on them, plus some button like ctrl, alt or command. I know that a while ago they implemented the double click on inactive villagers from a menu option, but honestly I do not have it selected, since there are many times that I use the double click to select active than inactive villagers. Now, it is true that I have been presented with situations where I have only needed to select inactive villagers, and that is where it occurs to me that adding a keyboard shortcut could add this function, so that by default each player has the box to their liking, but within the game you can use the shortcut and only select inactive, thus avoiding the unoccupied economy, or the annoying general dislocation of the entire economy.
Well, I hope the contribution will serve. Thanks a lot!
I also faced this dilemma when they added that option to double click to select inactive villagers. However I have worked out this setup:
- Double click to select idle villagers.
- Have the selection modifiers option enabled. With this, when I drag a box with ctrl pressed, only military units are selected, and with alt pressed only civilian units are selected. When I have to select a lot of villagers, I hold alt and make a box across the screen.
Exactly, I know those functions and it would be something similar. Why not use any of those buttons added to the double click to select only inactive villagers?
Moreover, I was thinking and the same shortcut could be used for military units, and instead of the variable being active / inactive, it is the type of unit within a control group.
How many times does it happen that we want to go back with one type of army to leave only another (move archers back and leave only scouts versus guerrillas) and we select all those of that type of unit, causing our army to pass underneath at another point of pressure from the urban center, losing half of our army?
Well this could be a great solution. Only select a unit type WITHIN A CONTROL GROUP