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Re: Stars automated micromanagement

Thu, 20 January 2011 22:17

Eagle of Fire

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I am not sure that I would be comfortable using scripts to do things which usually require a human presence to make sure everything is right.

The best example I have for you is when I started playing STARS! and that I was quite annoyed that I could not customize to my liking the automatic dropdown menu which is used by the game everytime you colonize or conquer a planet.

Then, with experience, I realized that most new planets would need to be carefully monitored depending of a variety of factors I had no control on... Like presence of enemies in the vicinity, customization of the build order to be able to get whatever I wanted to have built ASAP, etc.

So, in the end I ended up with only "use only leftover" box and a few auto mines as my default orders that I only really needed... And STARS! already do that.

Everything else works pretty much the same too... I am yet to find a situation in STARS! which is always 100% of the time the same whatever I do. There is always a lot to do as far as customization and optimization is concerned. The trick is that you hardly ever have the luxury to follow a truly fully optimized path since neighbors always get in the way somehow.

To get back to your video... You have shown examples that I would never need to use automation for because I always do it myself anyways. Like I said, I would certainly not feel comfortable to leave all this to some automation and would double check it in every case anyways. Because of that I would then lose more time fiddling with the automation than it should in fact solve...

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		Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Thu, 20 January 2011 19:08
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 20 January 2011 22:17
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: neilhoward on Thu, 20 January 2011 23:26
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: ccmaster on Fri, 21 January 2011 00:33
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 21 January 2011 00:39
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: ccmaster on Fri, 21 January 2011 02:55
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 21 January 2011 04:18
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: neilhoward on Fri, 21 January 2011 01:45
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Fri, 21 January 2011 03:20
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: neilhoward on Fri, 21 January 2011 04:41
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: m.a@stars on Fri, 21 January 2011 15:14
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 24 January 2011 16:59
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 24 January 2011 20:40
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: neilhoward on Tue, 25 January 2011 18:29
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Tue, 25 January 2011 18:54
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: m.a@stars on Wed, 26 January 2011 08:13
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Mon, 24 January 2011 22:57
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 24 January 2011 23:43
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Mon, 24 January 2011 23:44
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Tue, 25 January 2011 00:15
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Tue, 25 January 2011 00:33
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Tue, 25 January 2011 01:26
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: neilhoward on Tue, 25 January 2011 01:52
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Tue, 25 January 2011 02:33
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Tue, 25 January 2011 02:48
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: ccmaster on Tue, 25 January 2011 02:56
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Altruist on Tue, 25 January 2011 07:42
		The long goodbye By: neilhoward on Tue, 25 January 2011 12:47
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: Eagle of Fire on Tue, 25 January 2011 12:48
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Tue, 25 January 2011 14:31
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: neilhoward on Tue, 25 January 2011 18:57
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 26 January 2011 01:57
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: m.a@stars on Wed, 26 January 2011 08:20
		Re: Stars automated micromanagement By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 26 January 2011 09:33
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