Re: Playability Wishlist
I've been keeping a list for dominions 4:
* Sort commanders by name, or magic skill, or gold cost, or really anything other than unit #, both in the strategic and tactical screens.
* An auto-disperse command in the tactical screen that spreads all of your commanders out, maybe something similar for troops?
It'd be even better if you could somehow save tactical configurations, or specify them as text files.
example of such a text file:
(commands1.txt)
TS1 :front spread: - #communion master, #falling frost, #falling frost, #falling frost, #falling frost, !cast
TS2 :middle spread: - #commion slave, hold, hold, hold, hold, !stay behind troops
We add a command which lets me load such a text file, I load it, the game engine parses it, and when I hit ctrl-1 on a commander, he automatically gets put somewhere in the front 33% of the grid with those orders.
The other painstaking thing is to set up skirmishers - small units of 5 or 6 troops spread out over a varge large area. The game has many units (markata, a number of light javelin troops) which are excellently evolved for this purpose, but it's a major pain to set up.
* Sort provinces in the nation overview. Highlight (with red background or something) units in the nation overview that need orders (see locked commanders below). Option to change what info is displayed in the nation overview (scales, dominion, terrain masks).
* Search levels displayed while picking the province to target with search spells.
Alternatively/in addition, when targeting any spell, if the brown window including a list of what all other mages where casting at the selecting province (and what they were casting) this would also be keen.
* I'd like to be able to "lock" commanders on a particular task, and have them repeat it exactly each turn whatever it is (forging the same item, mainly.)
Locked commanders should vanish from the tactical screen when you hit tab (just like researchers.)
Locked commanders should be skipped with you progress through your list of commanders with the "n" key. This way I could assign units to siege or to scout a particular tactically relevant province and still skip them with the n key.
* Insane commanders should automatically have their orders cleared when they regain their sanity.
* I'd like to be able to "lock" recruitment in a province, so that the province automatically recruits the same mix of units every month.
* On the nation overview, when I left-click on a commander, as opposed to a province, it'd be nice if it zoomed to the province instead of just exiting the overview.
* And the endless request to selectively pull blood slaves and/or other gems.
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