That would certainly be nice to have, was thinking of it myself. Not only will this allow you to see what they are doing, but you would also get some insight into how many squads you actually have if you have a GUI listing them. It would be even better if the UI would also show what state the squads...

I initially intended them to have tons of hp and no damage so that the behavior could be better observed, but I didn't take the save in the right place so I just reverted the damage. Could've done it via config, but I messed with some other things as well so I didn't bother. What machine are you usi...

kyranzor wrote: I can have upwards of 1200 droids actively slaughtering biters, before I see any performance impact.. maybe my computer is just a beast?

I'm curious about this: do you mind trying the save I linked in this post and comparing your timings to mine?

Regarding discoverability/visualisation, what would be nice to have is a small graph at the bottom of the mouse-over panel showing content/time.

While playing around with Robot Army I noticed that the pathfinder would occasionally jump to use 2ms/frame. This save (mods included) shows ~50 robots engaging two medium-sized biter nests. On my machine, the pathfinder time used increases from 0.5ms when the save is loaded to 1.5ms as the second n...

Can you press F4, check "show_time_used_percent" and post two screenshots with that enbaled, one while it lags and one while it doesn't? After you've selected time_used_percent, press F4 again to toggle that menu away. A screenshot of the map showing both the biter base and yours would als...

Regarding the assembler direction suggestion, while I don't much care for it and it's just a solution to some of the behavior issues that doesn't introduce any new concepts/entities, I do believe that it actually is more intuitive than the current behavior from a player's standpoint. Right now, when...

I haven't given the balancing thing enough thought in order to answer your previous question. I will say that the terminators are an overwhelmingly more efficient investment, but that may be an outlier. I've dug deeper however into bot behavior and some performance issues. Now I've mentioned previou...

I've played around a bit with the new flying units. Overall, pathing is generally much improved. Due to the large numbers required for them to be effective, this highlights another issue: how they position themselves to engage enemies. With squads of 100, I've noticed that about half of them sit bac...

That's great to hear, I actually stumbled upon that mod yesterday but from reading the description it seems to be a mostly defensive thing. A combination of the two sounds great. How about an idea to directly control a bot while sitting in a safe bunker? The Drones mod seems pretty close, with the e...

I have to agree that flying robots seems the only viable option with the game in its current state. After some back and forth with the author on reddit (can't link due to this being my first post) I gave up on trying to use the mod on an end-game map since there doesn't seem to be any way to make it...