AI Request

[Dragon45]

I have no idea how this owuld be implemented, but:

Oftentimes i have found myself in desperate situations where i urgently need DGun, or weapons energy, but do not have it. Especially with a larger base, it becomes extremely timeconsuming (and usually, even loses the game) to go around to every building/type, ctrl-z, and select "stop", "off", cancel every factory's queue, and stop all current construction tasks.


Additionally tedious, of course, is reenabling all those things. I am asking for an AI that does the following:

1) Turns "off" everything so that minimal energy drain occurs
2) Stop factories from building
3) Remember the states of *everything* and then reenable it after the command is issued. meaning remember what build order was selected for every factory and builder, every solar/maker's state, etc.


This has huge tactical potential. Huge Huge Huge Huge.


So yeah, thanks :)

[Lindir The Green]

Well, the problem is that a group AI couldn't currently do it unless you assigned it to everything.

Seems more like a "panic button" for the mythical new GUI.

[bamb]

It's not the same but now you can just press ctrl-a and s. Doesn't stop buildings building stuff but will stop builder units.

I hit it many times in a round anyway because of the fscking annoying sound of some bot eventually wonking constantly somewhere in the map. Maybe it's a fark or maybe it's some other bot I said to move somewhere but it's fixed if I stop all units.

[sintri]

and I want planes to be able to land at 70 or 80% hp, cause planes are made outta paper.. not that that has anything to do with energy consumption.

[Egarwaen]

and I want planes to be able to land at 70 or 80% hp, cause planes are made outta paper.. not that that has anything to do with energy consumption.

You can do this now, I think.

[FoeOfTheBee]

how about reserving the next 300 energy to go straight to the dgun after d is pressed, automatically taking precedence over other uses.

[Acidd_UK]

That's a nice idea

[Dragon45]

That's usually not enough though; sometimes i just need all energy to go to dgun; not just enoguh for one desperation shot - i need as many desperation shots as i can get off without dying!

[Hunter0000]

See my feature request thread.

It would make this possible

[LordMatt]

Dunno about this one, it'd take away the fun of killing coms that are e-stalling with peewees.

[AF]

All this can be avoided with good resource management.

Build storage and overanticipate energy needs. It'll come in handy for expansion or if energy production is damaged too.

[Dragon45]

I know about good strategy AF.


Naturally what I mean is in a list ditch situation; like if your comm is caught for some reason.even i ngames where you are winning, this can happen...