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[MMM2409]

is it possible to add buttons to tell the units to take a certain formation, also depending on what units are marked?

please tell me your opinion

MMM

[M Doyle]

do you mean like getting a row of bombersinto a V-formation or a ser of Star destroyers into a box?

Or do you mean creating Easy-to-use "number groups"? (eg. tie group one to the 1 key, tie group two to the 2 key, ect...)

[Stockholm Syndrome (pORG13i)]

bombers have their V
dogfights know no formations

absolutely pointless in my opinion, sorry.

[MMM2409]

with formation I meant the things with the V and the row, espacially the V is meant as a V out of more than one squadrons, not the ship of an squadron

[Stockholm Syndrome (pORG13i)]

so you mean bringing several units into a brigade and get the whole brigate into one formation? hmm....don't think that's easily doable, if...

[M Doyle]

Porg, be nice.

yes i see it actually, and Porg, they DO have formations when entering, they only break during the combat, in the first barrage they'll take formation.

I can see it for things like corvetts definately, and ofcourse, tanks. nothing like a nice row of tanks to make a day, though on land terrain may make things problematic.

[Stockholm Syndrome (pORG13i)]

but I see the problem: you can unite several different types of units. corvettes, SSZs and bombers. how may a formation work?

[M Doyle]

they do in in C&C and AOE games. all you need to do is to add a key that means it focuses on an single unit as a "Central" point and where that units moves the others follow, like normal, but in a certain shape/pattern or "Formation"

[Stockholm Syndrome (pORG13i)]

yeah...but center force: TIE Fighter, company: ISD, Corvettes, ...
how shall that work?
can't

[MMM2409]

so it has to be programmed so the biggest ship is the center force

[M Doyle]

well we're in no position to say what can and can't be done. but if it cabn work i'd like it, especially if the AI can be programmed to use it to. It'd make things interesting... feel sorry for infantry though...

Infantry tactic with lone tank charge = Run round it.
Infantry tactic with tank row charge = Hope your bones clog up the treads...

[Solar]

Not gonna be possible, we don't have that sort of flexibility at our disposal

[MMM2409]

ok

[Doktor von Wer]

Formations are preset to the company of units you recruit; we can't make ships re-arrange in space easily to the click of a button, although lua could potentially try to do so it'd never work fully or properly.