0021933: Clumping issue with move orders - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0021933	AI War 2	Gameplay Issue		Oct 25, 2019 2:49 pm	Oct 25, 2019 2:49 pm

Reporter	Ljas	Assigned To
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.001 Official Game Launch!

Summary	0021933: Clumping issue with move orders
Description	Currently if you have multiple units selected, like a fleet for example, and you issue a move order, every selected units heads precisely where that move order was placed, not minding any overlap with other units. This has a couple of gameplay implications: 1) With back-and-forth "salt shaker" movements, you can theoretically fit an infinite amount of ships under one forcefield. If making the most of your forcefields is important, this is a lot of frustrating and not particularly rewarding-feeling micro. 2) The above sometimes happens even if you don't want to. For example, shift-queuing fusion bombers to attack multiple guard posts usually results in them compressing on top of each other, making them extremely vulnerable to AoE and (if I understood it correctly) especially the beam cannon, which seems unreasonably hard to kill because keeping your units spread out is difficult. It's also not particularly pretty to look at. AI War Classic avoided this by having each selected unit navigate to their slot in cocentric rings around the issued move order, instead of directly at it. Unless my memory fails me, there was a way to make them clump if desired, but as a default behaviour the rings resulted in a lot more believable fleet movement.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Oct 25, 2019 2:49 pm	Ljas	New Issue