Decouple "stop building" from "cancel order"

[Lionhardt]

"stop building" and "cancel order" are both bound to the same command. Say you have a tml launcher and queued up 3 tmls. Now you want to cancel the queue for some reason. You cannot do that without manually deleting all attack commands, because if you pressed the stop button the missile currently being build will be canceled. But often with tmls it is a matter of 1 or 2 seconds, which is not enough time to manually delete all the orders. This problem obviously exists for all units that can build something (and are not a factory) in some form. I find this to be a big flaw in the UI that has persisted since the release of the game.

Would it be possible to decouple those two and make a separate button and hotkey for them? Or do they already have separate hotkies and I just missed that?

[Reaper Zwei]

Wouldn't the pause button work?

[Lionhardt]

No? The pause button has no effect on move or attack orders. And it is exactly these orders that you want to cancel without affecting the build order.

[ZLO_RD]

Wouldn't the pause button work?

pause will stop production of missile, but not attack queue (as i beleave, i have not tested)

[Reaper Zwei]

pause then cancel the orders?

edit:
never mind you cant cancel attack commands with pause would be nice if thats was possible.

[Lionhardt]

you seem to not understand the problem. Pausing the construction of the current missile doesn't solve anything. It has nothing to do with the issue.

Or you assume pause halts the attack and move orders. It does not. Pause is a construction specific command.

Edit: This post is now obsolete, see edit of above post.

[IceDreamer]

Sorry mate, to my knowledge this is an engine-side function. Can't be changed :/ It is possible, just possible, that someone cleverer than me might be able to program a new function to be bound to a key which removes all attack orders, but the Stop command will always do what it does now.

[McGeifer]

Hmm bad news. This problem is verry annoying with the sera battleship aswell. If the bs is building a nuke while attacking a enemy you always need to babysit the ships so that you don't cancel the nuke when you stop a attack or move order. This happens several times to me and is verry annoying when the nuke was nearly completed.

[Vee]

This is annoying yes. If you want to delete 10 tml orders, order the launcher to shoot at 1 place without shift, then delete that 1 order. Still not ideal...

BTW I would also like a key to empty the build queue except the current unit in production.

[E8400-CV]

Agree. Especially because it often cancels current building unit when you cancel 2nd unit in queue