Suggested Option: Alternative army setup display.

[Loren]

Gandalf Parker said:
Double Click might have an upper limit but I suspect that its not far from the upper limit of what you can assign to a commander anyway. Do we really need doubleclick to pick up more than 255 of something so you can assign them to one unit? (I dont know if thats the limit)

There's no such limit. I've picked up over 500 units with doubleclick.

The problem isn't with what you can pick up, it's with what you're picking it up from. If there are too many units in the garrison you can't doubleclick it, period.


I think I know what's going on here. The more units you have in the garrison the closer together they are. I think the doubleclick failure is due to the units getting closer together--if they're packed too tight it won't work. Note that this explains the poster who found the limit went up when he got better hardware--he probably was running in a higher video mode.

It's a pain with any race that has freespawn.

[Ballbarian]

I will repeat:

Just did a quick test and the bottleneck appears to be tied to the CPU. The dom3 process idles around 43% on the main screen (large map with lots of armies), then upon entering the Army Setup screen, it leaps to 99% and I lose double click in dom3.

It is possible that increasing video memory/processing could take some of the stress off of the CPU, but I still firmly believe that the loss of double click is a result of overloading the CPU.

[Gandalf Parker]

That kindof sucks. One of the benefits to pbem is supposed to be that it supports really big games on low-end machines and connections. Its supposed to be one of the trade-offs for not getting to control battles. I wonder if one of the command switches you can put on the icon to run the game might make that better.