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Also refactoring is everything but starting from scratch! You look what you did last time and try to (probably) do it better. Worth noting that various parts of the game *are* being refactored - graphics, scripting, GUI toolkit, networking. Most people don't see it because the work is hidden away i...

:geek: (reading trough topics) But, when/if the other priorities (if other big ones don't appear) are dealt with, perhaps it'd be worthy all the huge effort, after all. But I agree, there are so many other important things that have a much deeper impact on gameplay, that formations seems too subtle...

Very few other RTSes support unit formations. For us, our pathing code simply doesn't support it. :( We'd have to spend a bunch of effort, and many other changes are far more urgent right now. Looking at the design page, you can identified the "path finding" as an NP hard algorithm, that ...

Kreuvf wrote:Voted for 640x480 because it comes in handy if you want to create a video of WZ and you can choose to capture a ~640x480 window

agree

formalize that better, http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3314/implementing_coordinated_movement.php what are the suggested mechanisms for using formation; like LMB down on destination, drag to new position, LMB up LMB(left mouse button). how many formations ? how formation is chosen ? how to mak...

To be able to position for example bunker and turret and to do this optimally, you are required to know if some tiles are included in the sensor range. Present solution would be to count tiles. I propose, to utilize the present LMB click and dragging mechanism which give visual feedback info on the ...