Slow down!

[Abaxial]

I'm fed up with this: I click on a unit to move it, and the UI suddenly changes focus to a different unit somewhere else. Worse, sometimes I've already tried to give an order to the first unit, and the second unit gets it instead, and focus shifts to a third unit. Also, often the UI selects one unit and then immediately deselects it and chooses another one.

Is there any way to slow this down?

Also, I find it irritating on those occasions when an action generates a floating message (e.g. religion changes because a religious unit is destroyed) the screen shifts quickly to another part of the map before you have had a chance to see it.

 

[legalizefreedom]

Turn Auto Unit Cycling off in the options and use the next action key.

 

[Abaxial]

Thanks, I'll try that. Don't think it should really be on by default ...

 

[legalizefreedom]

I think it should just work correctly by default.

 

[LobstaBoy]

I have lost so many units (at least that turns movement) to this.
Ya turning off auto cycle helps

 

[ShakaKhan]

You could also solve your problem by following the advice of your thread title: slow down. When the UI selects a unit, give it one half of one second to settle on the cycle choice. I used to have the same problem, and then realized that if I'm going fast enough that this is a problem, I'm probably going too fast and making mistakes.

A similar problem that I'm having is that the UI will sometimes, at least once a game, "forget" about one of my units. It will cycle through all the units, and then "next turn: becomes available but there is a unit somewhere that does not have preexisting orders (like a route) and for some reason isn't cycled to. What makes this much worse is that the unit marker is lightened and transparent as if the unit has already moved. Grrr

 

[Abaxial]

This should have been spotted and fixed in playtesting.