I agree with PurplePaladin, when you are in a battle and you have another planet pumping out carriers, it would be nice if you didn't have to leave the selected fleet in order to tell the carriers what to build.

As a side note, this doesn't have to be added for v1.1, but it could be something nice to add for v1.11.

If you have the whole fleet selected it will still add up all the points from all the ships capable of building strike craft, so you don't need to isolate the carriers in a selection.

Generally speaking, anything that's done by default should have some sense to it. For me, 50/50 by default makes no sense since I never use 50/50, I almost always have more fighters than bombers, so I'd have to go and instead of just building what I want, I'd have to cancel what the default is trying to build and then order mine. It just doesn't make any sense

If you just make three times as many strikecraft per hangar, and make the hangars cost three times the logistics, (and use the keyboard to assign them) you can save a ton of time in-game

.. which could then be expanded into preset rations, 10:1, 9:1, 8:1, 7:1....1:1

And on and on. This is why there is no default production, because everyone wants something that they'll use, and that differs for everyone. And besides, having "settings" defeats the whole purpose of your initial post, which was to have hands-off building - since you'd still have to select how you want them to auto-build



Well, if he wants to make life hard for himself.. or he could just wait until they're all built and do it once. It's not like filtering reinforcements in one ship at a time is ever a good idea

I know I come off harsh, but you're basically asking for a mechanics change because you're making your own gameplay harder than it should be

I want a simple implimintaion that wiil stop literaly TONS of time spent clicking-clicking-clicking, bomber, fighter, bomber, fighter, ect. If it works for you Anna, more power to you; it's a pita for US; it's more like C&C interface stuff.

Tolerable with Hangers, even Cap ships, but with the huge numbers of Carriers everyone will be buiding now, it breaks the pace of the game;is a continous hassel each and EVERY time you pop out a carrier, and stops the mood of the game to handle a endless task (unless you never lose a carrier the entire game).

Exactly FoePa, my two friends that have been trying the game off and on, they said they can't count the times they relized their Hangers were doing nothing because they forgot to go in and give them detailed instuctions to build SC; now with carriers, and their first tries with 1.09, they say they attack with their fleet, only to see their carriers sitting there, and remember, they have to go in and click dozens of times to tell them to build SC.

They remembered to do it more often the more they play now, but said it was a monotonous hassle even when they remembered.

All potential customers are "new to the game", and they very much dislike telling everythig what SC type to build. I'm an experienced player, and very much dislike telling each and every hanger, cap ship, and carrier what SC to build.

If a simple "button" would solve this, WE would push it, and YOU don't have to. If the AI auto-builds SC types, it seems the simplest of additions to click "Auto-Build" for humans too, as the programming is already fully written and implemented to do this.

We would much rather lose a game to an AI or human without clicking 100 extra times, than winning while doing so.

You don't have to tell each and every hanger, cap ship, and carrier what to build individually. If you select all of your units, i mean everthing, you can build from there. You can't be an experienced player if you don't know that. And i'll say it once again. Imagine that you need 5 carriers, each carrying nothing but bombers. If you put an Auto-Build in, you won't get those bombers right away, instead you'll have to cancel whatever fighters it was making, and have to select the bombers you want. It will waste more time. You don't seem to understand this. And why are you so stubborn about this. Are you too lazy just to click some icons quickly? I have such a hard time understanding where your coming from. For the last time, micromanagement is a key part of RTS games. Without it, the game becomes the likeness of a turn-based strategy game. I'm not gonna argue with you about this, but it just seems unnecessary for such a function to exist.

Totally agree. If you just want watch play Ai.

Perhaps then just add functionality of select the group you want then have one button that would assign fighters to the entire selection and one that assigns bombers to the entire selection. Eliminates the amount of clicking but creates some other problems.