Spring RTS Engine

Well, I'm just saying, automating it has more disadvantages than advantages...

ZellSF wrote:Well, I'm just saying, automating it has more disadvantages than advantages...

It doesn't really, though Zell. Your example of a disadvantage is frankly laughable; if you are dead you know it. You are no longer playing.

The key switching is actually quite good, though I might customize my key set to another configuration if I were playing a functionality light game.

neddiedrow wrote:

ZellSF wrote:Well, I'm just saying, automating it has more disadvantages than advantages...

It doesn't really, though Zell. Your example of a disadvantage is frankly laughable; if you are dead you know it. You are no longer playing.

Let's see:

• automating things that aren't requested to be automated is confusing
• You might accidentally reveal information (if you only have 1 solar left, it's not always that easy to realize when you're fully dead)
• Specs aren't really supposed to talk about the game at all and they're not really supposed to interrupt the game by talking

Now for the advantages:

• If you want to talk to your allies while in spec mode, you have one less chat mode to change. Most people change chat modes a lot throughout the game so I don't really see why once more hurts.

IMO, the UI should never be guessing what we want to do, we should tell it what we want it to do.

ZellSF wrote:Specs aren't really supposed to talk about the game at all and they're not really supposed to interrupt the game by talking

Then make it default that specs cant talk? bullshit. if i am playing game and i lose, i want sometimes ask questions. like how i died, etc. there are not always other specs talking to me... its just stupid to let it be in a: mode when there are no allies.

Maybe there should be a warning text when you are spec and you are trying to write to everyone?

Can someone make widget for this stupid thing then? lol.

TradeMark wrote:

ZellSF wrote:Specs aren't really supposed to talk about the game at all and they're not really supposed to interrupt the game by talking

Then make it default that specs cant talk? bullshit. if i am playing game and i lose, i want sometimes ask questions. like how i died, etc. there are not always other specs talking to me... its just stupid to let it be in a: mode when there are no allies.

Maybe there should be a warning text when you are spec and you are trying to write to everyone?

Can someone make widget for this stupid thing then? lol.

A widget would be ideal, that way you can choose this behavior, but no as a spec you should by default not be talking to other players. It's more logical that you should be talking to the other spectators.

Save the after game talk for after the game imo. Allows for much easier explanations without revealing stuff.