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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0010586Valley 2Suggestion - UI IdeasFeb 4, 2013 12:23 pm
Reporterwindgen Assigned To 
Status consideringResolutionopen 
Product Version0.724 
Summary0010586: Visually indicate which units have moved
DescriptionThis feature request covers three separate but closely related features.

This feature request is distantly related to bugs 0010585 and 0010579. In the sense that implementing a solution to this feature request, without considering those bugs, might lead to re-writing a lot of code.

(1) The game should make a visual change to units that have already moved. For example, gray them out.

(2) There should also be a way to quickly find units that can still take orders.

(3) Finally there should be a way to tell units to "hold." By "hold", I mean "stay on the current space, and don't appear on the list specified in (2)." (This concept might be called something else, depending on which strategy game you're basing your vocabulary on.)

Many strategy games include ways to help keep players from forgetting about units, which is very easy to do when you have a lot of them. Warcraft 3 puts a large icon on your screen when you have idle workers. The Civilization series has had orders for "fortify" (hold-forever), "sentry" (hold-until-danger-approaches), and "done" (hold-until-end-of-turn) since the first game.
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Internal WeightFeature Suggestion

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Chris_McElligottPark

Feb 4, 2013 12:23 pm

administrator   ~0030528

You realize that (1) is already in there, right? And always has been? The NPCs that have already acted go half-transparent...

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Feb 4, 2013 3:37 am windgen New Issue
Feb 4, 2013 3:41 am windgen Description Updated
Feb 4, 2013 3:43 am windgen Description Updated
Feb 4, 2013 3:44 am windgen Description Updated
Feb 4, 2013 3:45 am windgen Description Updated
Feb 4, 2013 3:45 am windgen Description Updated
Feb 4, 2013 12:19 pm tigersfan Internal Weight => Feature Suggestion
Feb 4, 2013 12:19 pm tigersfan Status new => considering
Feb 4, 2013 12:23 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0030528