Area Commands

[SpoCk0nd0pe]

Please implement area commands in the next patch. Imho it is really essential to this type of RTS. The attackmove is a strange beast.

[PhilipJFry]

What exactly do you mean by "area commands". An example of such a thing in a different game that has it might be nice.

[OxideIon]

Only game that I´m aware of that has area commands is planetary annihilation. They could be quite useful if they could be implemented.

[Exotic_Retard]

there is a mod for supcom that allows area commands. you can drag a box and reclaim orders will be given to everything in it for example.

another one was the reclaim ground modification. that lets you place a reclaim command on ground, which gives a move order to that location and reclaim commands on everything in the units build range.

either one is a pretty interesting take on things. they brought up some discussion in the past but because reasons reasons people like their manual reclaim micro they were not implemented

edit:
here is the link - it was a thing 2 years ago, after which i believe icecreamer made another one that did what i described above. it should be noted that these mods were already working in game, if we should choose to do so they only need integration.
http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=8471&hilit=area+reclaim+command

[PhilipJFry]

I've never playd Planetary Annihilation so i don't really know what you're referring to.
The closest thing to what i think you mean is the way supcom2 does it. In that game you can hold down the attack move to create a draggable circle that lets you target everything inside iirc.

[biass]

kinda

PA has some command where you drag out a circle with say mex selected and it claims any circle in it's diameter

doesn't really work for attack move, (at least in the traditional way)

[SpoCk0nd0pe]

Area Commands lets you do spread attack on a box select when holding control, or an area reclaim with similar behaviour to spread attack when selecting engies.

Homeworld is a good example on how such commands work.

There is already a mod that implements it. Sadly, it's not a UI mod.

Would it be possible to convert Area Commands 2.9 to a UI mod?

[PhilipJFry]

I tested the mod today and it doesn't work for the most part afaict.

[tatsu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGjYqpTLMOo

[angus000]

It would be great if it was implemented.