Special Button to Call Presently Inactive Truck or Trucks

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Special Button to Call Presently Inactive Truck or Trucks

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Many times it happened to me that suddenly I realised that one or two ot three or even more trucks out of fifteen have just finished its job and is standing still waiting for instructions.. not for long but.. it happens to anyone i suppose..

Sometimes it is one or few trucks standing between other still working on something trucks..

Sometimes when we focus on building the base, and we have sent one truck or two to built line of radars at the same time away from our base to see better the terrarian, or built faraway armed outpust, and suddenly we realise that this truck or trucks are not working for some time because they have finished their work and are waiting for further instructions..

I have very good idea, and I think really useful and good to apply..

I thought about one button on the screen, next to the mini map, or next to the game menu, the button would show the number from zero to fifteen, zero would mean all trucks are active, fifteen would mean fifteen trucks are standing and not working.

Now when buton simply once pressed, it would select one the nearest inactive truck, when we click it twice it would select second currently inactive truck, three would select three far to fifteen.

Already selected within seconds and without looking for them, trucks can be ordered as usual to do another task.

Also when we have trucks here there and everywhere, we can simply select them all or half to go to ne or two places when attacked by enemy for example..

Such a button would be good also to select only trucks, because sometimes I forget I have trucks on wheels and i want to sent all my wheel units to go and attack, so trucks accidentally hapen at least to me, that I forgot and send them to enemys base.. so one could simpy call them back..

I think such a button is a very good idea for Warzone game, it works perfectly, it is used in other game which tiltle i dont know if i may to mention :)

Please gentlemen tell me what do you think about my idea.

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Re: Special Button to Call Presently Inactive Truck or Truck

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there's already a "next truck" hotkey one can set with key mappings but maybe we need a "next inactive truck" hotkey as well.
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Or you can click the hammer icon and find an inactive truck and instead of clicking the question mark click the truck. it will take you to the truck :)
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Well you are right, I know about that :)

But the purpose is to select inactive truck or trucks within seconds.. not necesssarily by bringing camera to them..
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Then click the question mark ;)
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Maybe the ability to double left-click the question marks on the truck menu = select all idle trucks?
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macuser wrote:Then click the question mark ;)
He's got it :ninja:
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:)

Well question mark do not select inactive truck, am I right ?

I have to look between them which have a miniature of being built structure, and chose the one without..

When i have fifteen trucks, it takes precious time..
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Merowingg wrote::)

Well question mark do not select inactive truck, am I right ?

I have to look between them which have a miniature of being built structure, and chose the one without..

When i have fifteen trucks, it takes precious time..
As someone who always uses every second of time, loosing 4 seconds to click a ? truck is not anything.
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Well theoretically yes :) practically.. ;)

Well I only think that it woud be very comfortable to have such convenient button :)

It is really useful, believe me :)
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Yeah i can see that :)
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It would be a nice touch to click the "?" button to select that unit (but not move map to it) and double click a "?" to select all unoccupied units.

It's perhaps in same way that you can click "?" of an empty research slot and then choose what that research facility should research. Being able to do the same for trucks seems logical, and the double-click to select all unused trucks (and maybe even shift+click to select several trucks via their "?" buttons) would be useful, especially when you urgently need trucks to repair or build something.

That being said, please fix VTOL bugs first :)
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Nice :)

I see you have even extended and developed my idea with good ideas :)

I think it should be as simple as possible :)

And the clicked button would not have to take camera to the inactive truck, but just select, highlight it :)
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Well gentlemen ??

Is pressing the truck button good enough ?? Woudn it be better to call one inactive truck after another with clicking the button ??

Time is precious :)
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Merowingg wrote:Well gentlemen ??

Is pressing the truck button good enough ?? Woudn it be better to call one inactive truck after another with clicking the button ??

Time is precious :)
There is not suppose to be a hotkey for everything, you are should be able to micro manage your units.