QOL: easy spidertron remote-selection
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:53 pm
TLTR
let a key-combination (pipette Tool / shift-click) on an spidertron select corresponding remote
Why
In late game one may have more than one spidertron
If you like to select a specific one to do strange stuff on the edge of your territory yo have to figure out which remote is the correct one.
This can be done by looking in "connected to"-section of remote for name and color of the tron - but this is not fun (especially if you have not renamed your trons)
How
Please set up a key-combination for auto-selecting a corresponding remote for a tron.
For example hover over a tron on radar map and press "Q" (pipette tool) will automatically select the remote of that tron in inventory, so you can assign the next command to it.
Pipette tool is (in my eyes) the consistent option - it is for selecting something from your inventory and already do "intelligent" stuff - e.g. select miner when pressing "pipette tool"-key while hovering over ores.
let a key-combination (pipette Tool / shift-click) on an spidertron select corresponding remote
Why
In late game one may have more than one spidertron
If you like to select a specific one to do strange stuff on the edge of your territory yo have to figure out which remote is the correct one.
This can be done by looking in "connected to"-section of remote for name and color of the tron - but this is not fun (especially if you have not renamed your trons)
How
Please set up a key-combination for auto-selecting a corresponding remote for a tron.
For example hover over a tron on radar map and press "Q" (pipette tool) will automatically select the remote of that tron in inventory, so you can assign the next command to it.
Pipette tool is (in my eyes) the consistent option - it is for selecting something from your inventory and already do "intelligent" stuff - e.g. select miner when pressing "pipette tool"-key while hovering over ores.
). But there are cases where dedicated remotes are pretty handy. Have you ever tried to click a fast moving 'tron with a remote? It is almost impossible. I, at least, never succeeded to do that. So I usually have dedicated remotes for battletrons, to which I frequently give a sequence of move orders and then let them do their kill or patrol missions. At some point intervention might be necessary tough.