The case against auto-bombardment gets even thicker as I write this. I was playing Civ3:PTW for much of the night and discovered that, annoyingly enough, the auto-bombard feature wasn't working. I tried everything to convince the artillery to continue bombarding the next turn, but it just wouldn't do it on its own. Aargh.
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Originally posted by ShredZ
PEOPLE!!!! Are you not paying attention? Even the person the left me the link I was looking for apparently didnt read it either! There is a stack-bombard feature and this is how you do it:
It works, I just tested it.
No more complaining, this one is solved, bombard at will!
That's a "feature" of how your keyboard is "read" by the system.
Open Notepad.
Press and hold the "b" key.
See. Same thing.
I wish there was a game feature for this.
But there's not.
There's a keyboard-input "exploit" that reduces each bombard from 2 clicks (or 1 key+1 click) to 1 click, except for the first one.
Not much of a feature OR a fix, really."Just once, do me a favor, don't play Gray, don't even play Dark... I want to see Center-of-a-Black-Hole Side!!! " - Theseus nee rpodos
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You're so right Jaybe; maybe a "do your automatic stuff now" button would make auto-bombarding seem easier to use. Now that my artillery has started actually responding to the auto-bombard command again and does it stuff on its own (as far as I can tell, the reason for the auto-bombard function now working when I wrote last time was that the units only had one movement point. The new units all have two.), it would be nice to not have to hit the wait key a couple of dozen times. Or am I just lazy?The Electronic Hobbit
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I'd trash the auto-bombard button in a second if I could get stacked bombardment.Infograme: n: a message received and understood that produces certain anger, wrath, and scorn in its recipient. (Don't believe me? Look up 'info' and 'grame' at dictionary.com.)
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merry,
A "do your automatic stuff now" button would not be what I had in mind. I would prefer a Right-Click on the stack. The reason is that I might prefer to do my bombardments before/after my worker Shift-P's, or want to take care of different combat theaters separately.
Perhaps both options would be good.
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PEOPLE!!!! Are you not paying attention? Even the person the left me the link I was looking for apparently didnt read it either! There is a stack-bombard feature and this is how you do it:
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I haven't tried this with anything but Arty yet, but hold down the 'b' button continuously, and concurrently click on your target as many times as you want it hit (up to the number of Arty you have in position).
It works, I just tested it.
No more complaining, this one is solved, bombard at will!
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Shr3dZ: At least, if you're going to post the same message twice in the same thread, you could be more a little more polite. Saying "PEOPLE!!!! Are you not paying attention?" is not a good way to make friends.
Jaybe: I see what you mean about not wanting a general do your auto-stuff now button. I hadn't really thought about it that in-depth, although there are times when I wouldn't mind having one. Maybe having both an auto-stuff now and a right-click menu option would be a good idea. Although I still want the stack-bombard.... I wonder if Firaxis is reading this?The Electronic Hobbit
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The point of a quote is, it hasnt been changed, if you change it, its NOT A QUOTE! And believe me, I have much bigger worries than making online friends on a civ3 forum seesh.
Obviously ppl skim read, or they just read the latest threads so I was only trying to help... but thx for your input.
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Originally posted by meriadoc
You're so right Jaybe; maybe a "do your automatic stuff now" button would make auto-bombarding seem easier to use. ...
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I'm not sure what "ctrl-u" was supposed to do, but it didn't do anything when I tried it. I tried it as a stack-bombard function using a stack of artillery and as a "do your automatic stuff" function at the beginning of a turn. Thank you, though, for the thought.The Electronic Hobbit
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