Scheduled / Conditional Actions Idea

One factor that differentiates top players from the rest is APM (although it is not the most important one, it makes a significant difference). Ideally winning in a RTS would be as much related as decision making and strategy as possible.

A feature that might help low APM players would be the ability to schedule an action, even conditionally. Examples (AOE 2 based):

(Villager selected)

  • Build another lumberjack in a better position in 5 minutes;
  • Build a mini-wall to protect miners IF any enemy unit is visible on the villager sight of view;
  • Build a tower once feudal age research is finished in a determined position;
  • Build a second town center once castle age research is finished in a determined position.

This could be expanded for army control / reactions too. To have those programmatically actions helping might able more players - those who think well about the game and predict things pretty sharply - to be high level even though they do not have awesome reaction skills.

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