Leaving through the door should, IMO, be a common rule set in stone for RTS games now, so I hope ES do. Looks so much more nicer.

Hm, I never thought of that. Coming out of the door would add an even more realistic touch, but then would the get cramped at the doorway after 10 being made? Because popping out they could appear around the building evenly.

But if they get out of the door, with no gathering point, maybe they can get them to walk to the other side. Hm, we'll see.

On one hand, with units coming out of a doorwall, it looks realistic and great and all that I guess.

On the other hand, if theres any units infront of the barracks (for instance) than those units would have to move to allow the new ones to leave through the doors.

Personally, I don't sit and wait for individual units to be created, so I rarely see them pop out or leave through the door. Though the rare time that I am waiting for a lone unit, it's cool to see them come out a door, but it sucks to wait till they're full out before I can click on them and control them.

Untis coming our of the door is done in Cossacks, so i assume it is not a rather hard thing to do considering Cossacks is rather "old".

It would be a very nice touch IMO too.

ya agreed that aspect of cossacks was very cool

Cossacks is awesome. But if you're going to talk about it. Go to Cossacks heaven. Noone's there. So it's really boring, but the more people go, the more people talk! Well. It doesn't really matter. But anyway. Yeah, it'd be nice if they made it look nice, instead of it just appearing.

do you think that as they appear or come out that thet will constantly go into a formation or just a bunched up group?

Units walked (or drove) out of the building in C&C:G. While it is more realistic, it's really not that important, and can lead to pathfinding issues when units are infront of the "door", and have to shuffle about. Not worth it, IMO.

I don't think units in front of the "door" would prevent created units from exiting; a larger bounding rectangle (or a transparent sprite) around the building could prevent units walking in a certain area outside it.

I was actulay just thinking about this.
It would be cool to see them walk out, but it might be a hassle to have a unit walk all the way around the building and stuff like that.
But then again, most people set really points.

tbh, I really don't care

What about the russians it would take a while for 8 people to come out if you needed them right then.

I think there was a thread like this a few months back lol
Sounded like a good idea

PS: Wont take more than 5 seconds for 5 soldiers to come out of a military building.

Yes, coming out of a building through the door would look cool. Pesonally I could'nt care less how long it took for the units to come out unless they REALLY took their time.

Popping out works for me.

popping out creates a more ready situation, doors create a more cinimatic. Im too busy to watch a movie about a guy going through a door, id rather just take them and move them.

And if you are gonna have them leave through doors, then whats next after that, sleeping, eating, 2 villies enter the TC for durration of creating a new villie (or at least the early part, leaving the late part to schooling). Hey if you do that, then they can give you siphalis to slow over production of villies

um... now, it would LOOK cool, but it would effect gameplay, especially in this case. Well, unless the people coming out of the door was part of their production process, the way a building looks different when its build is started then when it's about finished. I mean, if you garrison ten units someplace, it would take ten seconds to get them inside. When you ungarrsion, the same thing happens.

Also, I believe there's the new 'training five at once' thing going on. That definitely won't allow for five people leaving through a single door, i mean... it just doesn't make sense for this kind of game. I say keep the 'pop-out's and leave the cinematics of opening and closing doors to other games

Well, I think it'd be a nice little touch - they had units leaving their buildings in C&C Generals, and it added a nice little touch of realism.

What, they don't have this there yet?? :O OMG: they certainly must go out throught the door-this is one of the best looking games ever so therefor, this is a must-feature. Sure, it isn't practical, but hey is having fishing boats act realistically to waves is sooo useful...
please ES, make this feature appear in-game. It's one of those nice little touches that makes the Age of Empires series a succes.

i think coming out the door will affect less (or don't affect) gameplay if the time in which the unit is leaving the building counts within the production time
for example: at 92% of production time, the musketeer will come out the door; from 92% until 100%, he will walk above the courtyard which is inside the barracks; at 100% he's totally out of the barracks (but will still walk until a point around the barracks, from whence he would pop out if the game didn't offer that realistic feature)

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Ooh, nice thinking there, Ferdinand!

That would certainly work - infact it would also act like a more visual progress bar.

in the game act of war the units were moving out of the building in the time of the progress bar and I hate it because you could already see your soldier out of the building when the enemy destroyed but you didnt get the units because he wasn't reaaly ready.

I really prefer popping out. When I produce a unit I want to use it as soon as its complete not as soon as its complete and walks out. Having to deal with the issues that mess up the door thing would be detrimental to gameplay.

it'd be cool if sandyman answers this

No, they don't walk through the courtyard and walk out of a door.

Besides, leaving though the door would mean you can only leave in one direction. This becomes problematic when that one direction is blocked by other buildings or trees, etc.