Set new unit waypoint?

[blindguy]

I think I set it up right, there is a circle on the spot, but I still have to tell the new units where to go to! How can I set it to clear all previous waypoints?

 

[Harrier]

I think I set it up right, there is a circle on the spot, but I still have to tell the new units where to go to! How can I set it to clear all previous waypoints?

Once you get the yellow circle - you have set the rally point. But it only works for units built after the rally point has been set..

As you say - you still have to tell the unit built before you set the rally point were to go.

So if you are about to start building units in a city - set the rally point first. Then the first unit built will go to it as well.

 

[comrizen]

[edit: Funneling all cities onto a city tile still seems hit & miss for me. Bah.]

I think i figured out the trick for waypointing mutliple cities to a city tile:

• For standard city to tile waypointing, the technique i use is:
  • Select a city by left-clicking the city bar (this is the bar below the city showing population number, growth bar, build item bar, and icon of the build item). Hovering over this bar slightly highlights, and after the left-click the bar is more brightly highlit.
  • Shift + right-click on the destination tile. This produces a yellow destination circle around the target tile. This works for any destination tile, including city tiles.
  • Ctrl + shift + right-click to choose the destination tile, as suggested above in this thread, also works, but i don't see that adding the ctrl key produces any different behavior and seems unecessary.
  • To cancel the waypointing, repeat this technique, and select the source city tile as destination. There is now no yellow circle while the source city is selected.
• For multiple city to tile waypointing:
  • To select multiple cities:
    • Hold alt while selecting a city (alt + left-click on one of your cities' bars) to select all cities you own.
    • Hold ctrl while selecting a city to select all of your cities on that continent.
    • Hold shift while selecting a city to add or remove it from the set of currently selected cities. (E.g. select one city, then shift-select another; now both are selected).
  • With multiple cities selected, shift + right-click a destination tile to waypoint them all, but!
    • If the destination tile happens to be one of the selected cities, this instead removes waypointing (or at least the yellow circle disappears).
    • So, to forward all cities to one city do the following:
      • Alt + left click one of your cities' bars to select all your cities.
      • Shift + left click the desired destination city to remove it from the selection. Now all cities are selected _except_ the destination city.
      • Shift + right-click the desired destination city to waypoint-forward all the other cities to that one.

 

[ArchGhost]

Shift-right click on a city.

I checked, you can't create a rally point on a city.

You CAN create a rally point to send newly created units from one city to another city. Click once on the creating city to highlight it, then Ctrl-shift-right-click on the destination tile (which CAN be a city).

To turn it off, highlight as before, then Ctrl-shift-right-click on itself.

Wodan

The issue is caused because a city can't rally to itself....which would be redundant anyway.

When you select all cities (or any number more than one) and try to set a rally point to any one of the selected city centers, it instead clears the rally points for all cities that are selected.

You can clear the rally point of an individual city this way by selecting it, and then shift-right clicking on its own center.



It IS possible to rally other cities to another city center, as Wodan pointed out. You just can't have the target city selected when you set the rallies for all the others.

The fastest way to do this is to select all cities (Ctrl+Left Click for all on a single continent, Alt+Left Click for all your cities in the world), deselect the target city (Shift+Left Click to select/deselect a single city at a time), then set the rally point to the center of the non-selected city (Shift+Right Click).

If you misclick or screw up where you want the rally to go, just Shift+Right click again. If you decide you don't want to have a rally after all, just Shift+Right Click on the center of a city that is selected.