Select All Visible X type of unit and other feature requests

Age of Empires IV IV - Discussion
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Hi everyone, I don’t know where to do feature requests or something similar so I’m just posting these ideas here:
1 Request:
Add new hotkeys to select visible units:

  • Select All Visible military units
  • Select All Visible cavalry units
  • Select All Visible infantry units
  • Select All Visible range units
  • Select All Visible siege units

Currently there are some alternatives that produce issues when fighting in multiple places, the same set of hotkeys exists for all the map, Select All cavalry units, Select All range units etc. When fighting in multiple places it is a pain to move units that should stay where they are.

2 Request:
The second idea is to incorporate the saved screen positions into the UI with icons plus some hotkey mechanism to iterate through them.
There are 8 possible saves, so some subtle icon implementation would be great to have, optionally to jump there by clicking on them and also to remember that you saved a position in the first place.

Xbox version has a clever implementation, in where ‘Flags’ are set in the map, and you can jump to the flags based on the position:

  • Go to the right flag
  • Go to the upper flag
  • Go to the bottom flag
  • etc

The ‘icons’ I mention before could be these flags, and with some customizable hotkey to jump between the flags, for instance, ctrl + wheel down, go to next flag, ctrl + wheel up, go to previous flag.

3 Request:
I’ve seen this in other places, it is basically the modifiers selection:

  • Ctrl + selection: select only military units
  • Alt + selection: select only villagers and economic units
  • Regular selection behaves as currently is, selecting everything.

That’s it for now, hope some of those QoL can be incorporated sometimes in the future.
Cheers!

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Whilst I personally wouldn’t use all of this, building more QoL into the game I’m always for.

One QoL thing I’d love is for traders to also have a “seek shelter” button and a “return to work/trading” button. This would really help with trade civs that build outposts along the trade line which get raided a lot (i.e. Mongol and Malians).

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:+1: these features would help me too.

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Selecting on screen is what is really useful, selecting all the units of a type on the whole map, it would only help me to see on the map when they turn white, but for me it is more common to have groups in more than one place

I also asked for your third request but I would also like to select only enemy units (to analyze them since it is difficult to distinguish and count the rival units)

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