Army Reinforcements

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Are there any plans for changing the reinforcement feature?

Right now, the reinforcements come from any available factory, no matter how far away it may be. 

It would be amazing to have more control over this. Best idea I could come up with, is to have reinforcements ONLY come from factories that have the rally point set to that specific army. Having to manually setup build queues on the closest factories, then again, have to manually add those units to the army you wish, is adding too many clicks for me. 

Build a factory on the south side of map, set rally point to your southern army then move on. After that, you only need to reinforce that army, and not have to worry about your northern factories sending units to the south side and getting taken out half way there. This seems like a must-have feature, especially for large maps. 

What do you think?

 

Edit: my bad for not posting in the correct forum category :(

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Intersting thoughts. 

 

Right now, it obviously doesn't seem like you can lock rally points to moving troops.

 

Once you do that, though, this would seem to suggest that ALL units will move to the army (like in starcraft 2).

 

I agree that this is PROBABLY a good way to deal with the issue... simply adopting the starcraft trope. 

 

You basically produce to the rally point. Always.

 

Done. It could be that simple. 

 

BUT...

 

I also like the idea  that you can SEPARATE regular unit production from reinforcement production.

 

I like the idea that I can call reinforcements from my armies, and still be able to send troops elsewhere, without extra clicks. 

 

I would therefore suggest that you should maybe be able to add a reinforcement rally point, which is separate from regular production rally point.

 

I don't want to over micro, and I often put all factories of a single type under a specific control key... but... 

 

... yeah... tough issue.

 

 

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Reinforcement rally point... that would solve everything I think. Good idea!

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Reply #3 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Am assuming you would need to be able to set multiple reinforcement rally points... assuming that's the winning idea.

 

 

Reply #4 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

What does Frogboy or Island Dog think about it? Any plans on tweaking or adjust this?