Waypoints - follow order

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Something I haven't come accross, maybe it's there...
Is it possible to set way points, especially I've seen the use for this with fleets which seem to like sailing straight through storms?
Perhaps then I can send my fleets and even armies on roaming patrols....

Other is a follow/attack order. Especially when the tech for seeing the adjacent zone is discovered. It happens to me when I see an enemy fleet and send mine to intercept. They leave the sea zone as you enter or are still leaving...
You then have to try and determine where the enemy is running, sometime hard when there are several sea zones in the same direction.
a persue method would be great.
At the moment when chasing fleets I go about a strange procedure of zooming in to max, and then click the surrounding zones trying align my ship icon with that of the enemy. You can only tell this by the fact the enemy ship has completely disappeared. This leads to much time squinting closely at the screen to see if part of their ship is visible indicating you haven't got the direction correct.

 

[Johan]

You can shift-click to set waypoints for movement.

/Johan

 

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Originally posted by Johan:
You can shift-click to set waypoints for movement.

/Johan

I never found that in the manual !
Need new glasses perhaps?



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What are you saying? That the manual is missing some information??

Duh!



(sorry about that, I really love the game but the manual...)

 

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Who needs a manual?
Without one, I discovered this function all by myself after only six months of play

 

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'I never found that in the manual !
Need new glasses perhaps?'

What ? You never played a RTS game before ;-)
[shift] + click is one of the requirements to even be a RTS game =)

Seriously though, mayby something to incluse in the English manual, Greven ?


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/ Stefan Huszics

 

[Johan]

Sorry, I just never thought of mentioning it in any manual..

'rightclick to move, left click to select. drag-leftclick to select group. shift-click for waypoints, ctrl-number for groups' was so natural to me that I never really thought it was needed in the manual..

I apologise

/Johan

 

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I must say that I really like the manual included on the CD.
So perhaps it lacks some minor info. Perhaps it could need an index.
It's not like anything big, I mean.

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Olim fuit melius -Things were better in the past.

 

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You can actually use Ctrl too ? Nice...

Cobos

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Originally posted by Johan:

was so natural to me that I never really thought it was needed in the manual..

Programmers...... ;-)



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bmolsson
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