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Deployment Positions
« on: May 19, 2011, 12:06:34 AM »

I haven't read all the suggestions, or kept up to speed on all the developments, so if this was already covered forgive me :P.

In any case, the suggestion is as the title reads. I noticed that you can shift your ships around before deployment when you put them into groups before battle, however, is there a way to separate the function of grouping and where they're going to appear along the bottom of the map?
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Re: Deployment Positions
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2011, 07:06:08 AM »

I haven't read all the suggestions, or kept up to speed on all the developments, so if this was already covered forgive me :P.

In any case, the suggestion is as the title reads. I noticed that you can shift your ships around before deployment when you put them into groups before battle, however, is there a way to separate the function of grouping and where they're going to appear along the bottom of the map?

Ahh, you know, it's a good point. Did it this way for simplicity, both UI and implementation-wise, but ideally you'd be able to do as you suggest.

The way it is now does let you put stuff where you want by assigning group numbers carefully (lowest # to the leftmost, etc). But of course if you want the group on the right to be number one, you're out of luck.
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Re: Deployment Positions
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2011, 07:58:01 AM »

Also if you want say, deploy 1 & 3 overlapping, and 2 on the rights, because of the current positions of those groups that are already on the map, or if you want to put extra space between 1 and 2 because you want to give them plenty of maneuvering room