Hi, i am the commander of this army, why do i have to micromanage the daily work routine of my units? i have more important stuff to do.
Secondly, the AI auto-casts, but it's still just an AI. It's highly limited compared to a player's adaptability, not to mention that its auto-casts are not always used intelligently and therefor mostly wasted.
A dumb sentiment when yo uare makign a game that features so much for the player to do.
Build stuff, capture stuff, fly around and kill stuff. Then you also want to saddle us with "oh and yes please go micromanage all units on the whole map. thx.
For one, player versus player must be considered, as it's an integral part of the game (and arguably one that will strongly influence the game's longevity).
Players that are into micro play company of heroes and starcraft, games that FOCUS on these tasks. Just because yo uelevate it to integral part by flat out denying all other options does not make your decision right. In fact you are going full burn Microsoft here....
Do you know why the command and conquer games failed in their later iterations? Devs added micro past "build your base, build units, go kill oppoennt".
Do you know why Art of war failed, a game that in many aspects was superior to its peers? Mass micro with a game not totally optimized fo that.
You are setting yoruself up for fail here.
Oh and you also are making a boring ground war rts instead of fleet vs fleet air war dragon combat extravaganza.
But hey, stay the course. i have seen MS grosly misread everythign this year and im prepared to watch a few more things burn.
oh and btw:
Knowing WHEN and WHERE to use an ability is part of becoming skilled at the game. One less hurdle to worry means one less reason to feel superficial joy at accomplishing something in the game and one less factor that differentiates players of varied skill levels.
No. You actively scare away people who wanted a niche game about say... air fleet battles with an action part in order to catch the crowd that is already mnarried to games that are specifically designed to excell in this kind of rts micro gameplay.
Hey, ask microsoft, perhaps they have some foot left that you can stuff in your mouth when you make these kind of announcements. ^^ I feel yours is not yet grown enough for the task at hand.
