Goto Home City...

[UltraSonix]

I've never used the GOTO Home shortcut. But this is because in SMAC the generic goto command was very good - the pathfinding was execellent and only rarely did units get stuck.

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And if Firaxis is reading this...

What do we want? Civ3! When do we want it? Now! (Ok Ok - just don't do a Blizzard and delay it too much...)

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[pris]

Clicking to move a unit's fine is you can see the destination but it's too slow when the city's on the other side of the map. Being able to popup a list of cities (& waypoints) and selecting one with the keyboard is the most efficient way to do things.

[Atahualpa]

Dalgetti:

Ata

[Adm.Naismith]

1. I'm for a regional unit-support, then country level. Home city level can be kept only on early level of nation development (in SMAC term, for basic S.E.)

2. I rarely used GOTO Home. In SMAC the common GOTO work fine.
I always used GOTO nearest city for Planes, but I hate when during a transfer flight (to the limit of plane autonomy) the computer, at the start of second turn of moving, compute that there is a nearest base than mine target and switch the destination
Please "address" that!

On GOTO city subject, when I list the available cities (for CIV trade caravan or SMAC Alien artifact) I would like to have some hints about cities on the same continent, cities only available by sea transport, cities with specials transfer available (CIV airport link, SMAC psi gate, etc.) for quick unit movement.

The distance shouldn't be the main number showed, you should instead show turn of movement needed (taking into account available road/railroad and one turn shortcut (airports). And please take count of special unit movement (in SMAC, air unit GOTO show number of turn needed by ground unit - counting terrain movement reduction and the like).

Thank you for asking, sorry for extended answer!

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Admiral Naismith AKA mcostant

[Valen]

I have never used the Goto Home command, but I tend to move each of my units individually and rarely use any extended movement commands (except possibly for caravans/freight when grouping them to assist in later Wonder construction).

[Imran Siddiqui]

I use it time to time, but not too often.

[Slingshot]

Does home city = the city that supports the unit?

Does this mean that CivIII will have city-supported units, instead of civilization-supported units?

If units are still city-supported, I think that Firaxis is missing a great opportunity to advance it's version of the Civilization game. Units should not be tied to a single city.

[Joseph]

I use it after I'm through exploring. If the unit jerk around, I will move him serveral square, and then if he has a strait shop at his city, I will used the goto command. I also used it for ship when tranporting trade.

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[MidKnight Lament]

Good pick-up, Slingshot.

I'd prefer civ supported units too.

- MKL

[Slingshot]

There are a lot of good reasons to have civ-supported units, the best of which is the fact that units are more portable.

I would love to have a feature wherein units are still given a home city, but leave out the support/happiness dependance.

Maybe then we could expand the power of the Goto Home command. Variants could be enabled with a right click, and they could include:
- scout/defend home, where a unit would patrol the city borders and go home if enemies are detected.
- defend home trade, where a unit follows a trade line (or whatever CivIII has) between home city and partner city.

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[Tiberius]

Defend city, defend trade route Nice ideas. I'd like to add "defend (patrol) border" also.
But how could you defend trade route (?caravan?) outside borders?

[FinnishGuy]

I've never used this feature.

Oh, and here's one more vote for national level unit support.

[Hasdrubal]

I've never used it. Throw it out. The 'goto city' command will suffice.

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[Spekter@Home]

Turf it. Goto specific city with a good path finding routine is all you really need.

Is anyone else sensing that Firaxis could be in a lot of hot water if this game isn't spectacular?

Also, I agree with nationally supported units as well...

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[Ken Bregott]

Keep it. Even if some people do not use it, why should all the rest of us suffer because you want to save a single, pitiful line of text in the right-click menu?