Ordering of Melee/Ranged Weapons

Post by **Dave** » April 8th, 2004, 12:53 pm

The game allows the creator of a unit to order their weapons, and the attack dialog will display the weapons in the order they appear.

Originally, a convention was used of listing melee weapons first, followed by ranged weapons. However, back when the AI was very very dumb [1] it didn't know which weapon to pick when attacking, and so would pick the first on the list of weapons. For this reason, I made it so units controlled by the AI (back then campaign was the only mode of play, so these units were orcs and undead) had their ranged weapons listed first.

However, I find this confusing and inconsistent when I'm controlling a unit and when I attack, its ranged weapon is listed first. I feel we should move back to a convention of showing melee weapons first, then ranged weapons.

Any objections?

David

[1] It is now only 'very dumb'

Post by **quartex** » April 9th, 2004, 4:25 am

Makes sense to me.

Post by **Sangel** » April 9th, 2004, 4:41 am

Agreed.

Combatjuan · Post by **Combatjuan** » April 9th, 2004, 10:27 pm

Definitely.

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » April 10th, 2004, 10:11 pm

Sounds great to me.

Post by **Sangel** » April 10th, 2004, 10:56 pm

Is it just me, or is this topic merely acting as a place for us to explore different ways of expressing agreement?

Kamahawk · Post by **Kamahawk** » April 10th, 2004, 11:05 pm

Sangel wrote:Is it just me, or is this topic merely acting as a place for us to explore different ways of expressing agreement?

I concur.

Post by **Neoriceisgood** » April 11th, 2004, 10:33 am

That's a must do in my book.

telex4 · Post by **telex4** » April 11th, 2004, 11:17 am

Sangel wrote:Is it just me, or is this topic merely acting as a place for us to explore different ways of expressing agreement?

My views are in harmony with yours, Dave.

Gafgarion · Post by **Gafgarion** » April 11th, 2004, 5:43 pm

Oh aye.