I, some times when i play and attacking a base, i find my self looking for my ranged siege weapons. I know that u can double click a unit and select the same type of it but if is a bit of screen it wouldnt be selected. This happends quite offen since the siege weapons are slow to catch up with your rest army. Also in a open battle it would be great if u could select ur archers and direct there attacks as u wish or any other unit from all around the map. Another thing that iritate me, is the fact that u can have only 30 select at a time. What is the meaning of that? Why should I be limited to the units that i want to control? It just doesnt sound or looks good to me.
Another thing that you cant do is the dragging selection of units. You cant scroll in the map while dragging the mouse to select your units. U are limited to what u see. Also the minimap should be used to select units or even attack something, espessialy with the new big size minimap that would be a great option.
One more thing that comes to my mind now from Total Annihilation again is that you could assing a hot key (e.g key 1) to a factory, in this case a stable or a military academy or anyother building that produces units and all the units that came out of that building had the key 1 as there selection. So u hit 1 and u control all units that came from that builting. Pretty cool right? Another cool option was the .shootall command inputed as text in game. By default your units wouldnt attack non military buildings/units. The great thing about this was that when in battle your units would attack military units first and ignore the rest. Dont u just hate it when ur archers stop and shoot at storehouses or granarys while there are about 20 hoplites coming to make pieces of your cavalary or siege? There are a lot more but i just cant remember them at this time. I would suggest to ESO to add this kind of shortcuts in the game, AOM is one of the best game i have ever seen and it would be great if you could control it as you wish. Here are some suggestions. HT = Hot key HT for ranged units (not including siege weapons/myth) PUT THIS IN CAPS ENABLE THE ABILITY FOR UNITS TO ATTACK WHILE THEY ARE MOVING (maybe i ask to much :P) All the above apply for sea units also Thats about all i can remember now but there are a lot more options that can be added, i am sure others will have more in mind also. For those who will flame me, i know that you can do all this with one way or another but this is my thoughts so plz respect them as i respect u. I would like to hear what your think about this options and if u have more plz post them here. Also i would like to know a contact link or an email address or even a forum that i can post this so ESO would read it. Regards [This message has been edited by SteelBlade (edited 10-10-2003 @ 11:04 PM).]
HT for cavalary (close combat)
HT for infantry (close combat)
HT for ranged siege weapons
HT for sige weapons (close combat)
HT to select ALL your military units
HT to select ALL your idle military units
HT to select all units of the selected type
HT to select all military units in ur active screen (not really needed coz of the drag select option which is also worth to mention that is excellent now that u have the option to ignore civilians, this is first time ever i have seen an option like this, gratz ESO)
HT for flying units with attack
HT for flying units with out attack (healers, scouts)
HT for myth units (close combat)
HT for myth units (ranged attack)
HT for ALL HEROS
Enable the ability to scroll while drag selecting
Enable the ability to select/attack from minimap
Enable the ability to select more than 30 units