Huegelkoenig wrote:Suggestion: Advanced Auto-Assault
At the moment, the Auto-Assault-Button is implemented like this:
- Attack as long as you have more than 3 troops and the enemy has more than 0 troops.
or- Attack until you have less than 4 troops OR the enemy has less than 1 troops.
My suggestions would be, to add two textboxes next to the Auto-Assault-Button, where players can enter the amount of troops, for the Auto-assault to stop, manually.
How this will benefit the site:
You often find yourself in a situation like this:
Large stacks vs large stacks.
If cyan wants to attack Maghreb, cyan has two options:
1. Choose Spain or Greece and click Auto-Assault.
2. Choose Spain or Greece and click Assault manually.
The downside of these two options are simple:
Option 1.: Cyan has to advance the remaining troops to Maghreb and his second stack of 400+ troops is left behind the border.
I know, cyan can reinforce them, but maybe cyan already needs to reinforce troops somewhere else.
Option 2.: It takes time and a lot of clicking. And i know, there are games with stacks way larger than the 400...
If you would be able to choose "Auto-Assault Spain->Maghreb until Maghreb has less than (e.g.) 5 troops", you could go on by attacking the remainaing 3 or 4 troops from Greece and have a large stack at your new border.
Another possibility would be, if cyan (in the situation above) doesnt want to conquer Maghreb, but just weaken red there.
He could choose e.g.
"Attack Spain->Maghreb until Maghreb has less than 200 troops or Spain has less than 300 troops"
and
"Attack Greece->Maghreb until Maghreb has less than 10 troops or Greece has less than 300 troops".
Cyan would end up in a situation (except he gets very very bad or very very good dice) where he has ~300 at Spain and Greece and red has ~50 troops at Maghreb.
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To prevent users from making wrong inputs, you could also consider using dropdown-menus instead of textboxes
- It should be possible to disable this feature (to reduce interface clutter) from the Control Panel.
[spoiler]I like the auto-attack feature and i use it alot on battles with alot of armies and battles that i should easily win. But sometimes you just get rotten dice roles and you might lose horrible. Say its 15-4 and you do auto-attack and the next thing you know its 3-3. I would normally never keep attacking all the way down to 3.
A good way to combat bad dice roles will be to set your own limit for auto-attack. Maybe you want your limit to be 10 instead of 3. This way you can still take advantage of how the auto-speeds up the game, but dont have to suffer the significant instant lose of troops. It could be another drop down menu numbered 1-however many troops you have. What do you think?[/spoiler]
