From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22359 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 15:10:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22341 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 15:09:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mwinf0803.wanadoo.fr) (193.252.22.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 15:09:59 -0000 Received: from bboett.dyndns.org (AStrasbourg-206-1-2-69.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr [217.128.59.69]) by mwinf0803.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 28CC9180013C for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:09:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by bboett.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D3392F40; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:09:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:29:00 -0000 To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: standing order Message-ID: <20031120150945.GC20093@adlp.org> Reply-To: bboett@adlp.org Mail-Followup-To: bboett@bboett.dyndns.org, xconq7@sources.redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: bboett@bboett.dyndns.org (Bruno Boettcher) X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00854.txt.bz2 hi, playing lazily an xconq game with 3 friends, and once again hit the wall against the standing orders wall... unlike Brandon claims i don't do any micromanagment, and we are at turn 273... now i have 15 cities producing armors and all those armors converge (as sayd automaticly) and crossing oceans into the battlefield. i have setup resupply lines, but for the moment i switch the standing orders each time i have a full contingent of armors, so again it would really be nice to be able to tell 'if armor at 47,2 move-to ((46,2),(47,3),(46,1))' also the fact to wait for completion, means : if armor[15] at 46,1 move-to ..... or if armor,num=15 at would be nice oh and BTW maybe i am a bad boy :D but seems the others still haven't figured out how to use standing orders and i hear them mouse-clicking as mad :D it was sayd several times now that it seems that only very few people use standard orders, but for me i would die if i hadn't them... only their usage could be simplified... as for now i have to write down the start and end points by hand, when putting the armors that enter a troop transport i have to count by hand the num of cycles they have to go into sentry etc. all stuff that could eventually be simplified by the UI? anyway its a great satisfaction to play general and see unfold a winning strategy without hitting the mouse once :D -- ciao bboett ============================================================== bboett@adlp.org http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett ===============================================================