🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.games.starcraft
Article #293141

Re: Playing Starcraft by voice

#293141
From: Steve Kaye
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:00
23 lines
2044 bytes
On 24 Jul 2011 06:39:09 GMT, John Doe <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> wrote:

>Supreme Commander 2 IMO clearly has a better interface overall, 
>but Starcraft 2 has at least two useful differences... The ability 
>to save and recall views. Selecting multiple units does not 
>disable building commands. The latter helps with scripting by
>allowing selecting units with click and drag (like when trying to
>programmatically select a single working unit might be difficult),
>and then building something. 

Yes, that is useful.  You can even group different unit types together
and use tab to cycle between them to get to their actions.

I used to use group 2 for barracks, group 3 for factory and group 4
for starport.  That meant that my combat units only started at group 5
which was a bit of a pain to reach.

Now I have them all on 2 and my combat unit groups start at 3 (1 is
command centres).  Now I can use just use one hot key with tab to get
to all my production units to create more combat units.  Much simpler,
easier to remember and easier to reach on my keyboard.

steve.kaye
Technical Details
Message-ID: <698q275mlme9r9o52hj44q89ufalga4kq4@4ax.com>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
References: <4e28d32b$0$1852$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a@news.astraweb.com> <4e2bbe0d$0$10084$c3e8da3$50776f34@news.astraweb.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Steve Kaye <nos...@giddy-kippers.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.games.starcraft
Subject: Re: Playing Starcraft by voice
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:00:51 +0100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <698q275mlme9r9o52hj44q89ufalga4kq4@4ax.com>
References: <4e28d32b$0$1852$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a@news.astraweb.com> <4e2bbe0d$0$10084$c3e8da3$50776f34@news.astraweb.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="AohoESHY9KsAZrmEIGKcGA"; logging-data="24393"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/pIa4HXSnM2TTdYY7qSLz9TGzujMWtmQQ="
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186
Cancel-Lock: sha1:8MGqzfXjGs1EJBGD41Uky0OKanU=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit