Queueing on Buildings

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Saw this in OpenRA... In OpenRA The Structures (And by extension the Armory Tab) allowed you to queue buildings much like the Infantry & Unit Tabs. Also a possible option to add a Queue Limit so we can still have a use for the "Unable to comply building in Progress EVA" Laughing

Example Scenario:
Player Clicks on Allied Wall 3 times then clicks on 1 Pillbox & 1 Patriot and then Allied Wall again. When construction is finished placing construction immediately starts up on the next on the list. In this case its Wall-Wall-Wall-Pillbox-Patriot-Wall

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Astral · Disk Thrower **Joined**: 07 Dec 2012 **Location**: nowhere

Good idea, when there is no any bug

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

i don't think it's that useful
You still have to click on the cameo when you want to place the building. Thus you still have to scroll through the list of buildings and find the currently finished one, so it doesn't reduces your clicks that much.

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Speeder · Commander **Joined**: 03 Sep 2004 **Location**: Czechia

Yeah, building queues don't sound like a good idea. Encourages turtlespam even more. Besides, it's a different type of queue than the unit one so it would probably require more work..

And LKO, you don't use hotkeys to place your buildings?

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

i don't think it's that useful
You still have to click on the cameo when you want to place the building. Thus you still have to scroll through the list of buildings and find the currently finished one, so it doesn't reduces your clicks that much.

If you press the hotkey to that Tab and if you have nothing selected your cursor automatically is set to the placement of whatever building you have ready for placement in that Tab. (Although if you have something already selected for placement,selected units,etc it won't change)

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Speeder wrote:

And LKO, you don't use hotkeys to place your buildings?

About 8 years ago i last played RA2. Don't remember it having hotkeys for that. Embarassed

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Astral · Disk Thrower **Joined**: 07 Dec 2012 **Location**: nowhere

It's a pity that there is a bad attack-move combination in RA2 (Ctrl+Shift+Click) and the attack-move itself performs not so correct as I want.

Parasite03 · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

i don't think it's that useful
You still have to click on the cameo when you want to place the building. Thus you still have to scroll through the list of buildings and find the currently finished one, so it doesn't reduces your clicks that much.

There is a strange "Auto Deploy" function in ui(md).ini. I already put the blueprint up to fix it.

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4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

The "strange auto-deploy function" was supposed to be included and I don't think they ever fixed it in TS, and was completely excluded in RA2, whether it is fixable or not is beyond me, nevermind the fact that alot of units use "autodeploy" as well as the AI, so fixing it may just bring out a whole slew of other problems.

WW is notorious for stringing logics onto other ones.

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