staging areas

[mrhell]

I would like the option to have all my produced units automatically move to a specific place of my choosing on the map when they finish production, instead of having to move every single one, every single time.

Come on, someone tell me I'm stupid and that there's already this option, and I just missed it somehow.

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

Oh, like a rally point? I like that. It's annoying when you're gearing up for war and, every turn, you have to visit several cities and move each new unit individually.

 

[Szpilman]

Yeah, that's definitely a good mechanic straight from RTSes. Someone should be able to modcomp it in if it's not in Vanilla.

 

[ShadowWarrior]

Sometimes the simplest ideas are also the most brilliant one. This is one of them. I am surprised this was never implemented in the previous game considering that its so prevalent in RTS.

But then again, Civ 5 seems to be designed such that even big wars will involve a lot less units, and that stack of doom is no longer possible. If that were the case, maybe rally point is no longer necessary.

 

[mrhell]

A staging area has applications beyond war. I'm thinking about those massive expansion fleets I build, where I need a settler, a worker, and another unit, plus a ship, to meet in the same area, after being produced by different cities.

 

[phantom000]

That would be a neat idea, but it never bothered me much sense it's turn based and it shows you which units are awaiting orders.