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whispers to Tarl: that's the point.

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The community was split for AutoQueue. One group wanted it to simplify the game, while the other group thought that it would take away skill from the game. So BHG decided to compromise and allow AutoQueue for a penalty.

quite frankly it's the only method of autoqueue that works.

TGE

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Literally? No. You charge the cost upon the moment production begins, rather than before. Personally, I don't mind either way.

I definitely agree about the patrol implementation, though. The current method sounded good on paper, but in practice, it's kind of lame. The *logical* thing to do, would be to finish the patrol loop by clicking on the portrait of the unit, rather than on the actual unit itself. Alas that does nothing. At least not in the first version. I wonder if they secretly put that in the recent patches...

'take away skill from the game'?

Since when has not using a feature of the game been considered a skill?

So..why are queues in the game then? And why the heck wouldn't auto-queue work as it was implemented originally in the demo and RON?

The queue, like all things in Rise of Legends, is a tradeoff. You are putting down money for units in the queue for the convenience of being able to focus your attention elsewhere. A skilled player is able to split his focus and gain a slight, deserved, advantage.

That's a complete copout.
Queues were designed for complete automation, like they've been used in the real world since 1956. The only reason they'd be eliminated is because some people from WC3 or AOE whined it made the game too different.

It doesn't make game different but it reduces the macro requirement in game.

How does the game benefit from reducing the macro requirement exactly?..

At worst it's a convienence for certain players. At best it will allow people to focus more on moving units around instead of queueing them up. It's long been recognized that repetitive tasks like queueing things up and tallying them off are best handled by computers, what possible connotation of 'fun' is really being derived from here?

Oddly enough, with the way resources are managed in this game, I never find queue's all that useful.

The game is too fluid. You have to be able react to things on the fly. I've had two units queued and *cancelled* the second one because I needed the resources for something else. Things can really go down to the wire when your trying to keep everything going.

Give the hot keys a chance. They'll make a big difference.

I agree that infinate queue would be useless, even if implemented in your method. It's much more viable to simply use your building hotkey, and hotkey the units you want, then have the building rallied to the battle and/or control group. This is the method i use for building units during battle and it's very fluid.

I mean, if you had your barracks constantly pumping out 2 scorps, then a heartseeker, then a DW, ad infinium, you'd never save resources to build anything else. Why would you want an infinate queue except maybe in a deathmatch map?

Exactly -- apart from very few applications where I'm already winning anyways, why should I queue at all?

It's no use in a game where I have to constantly adapt&change&trick my enemy, anyways. What would the queue you propose help there? Nothing, I'd still be producing everything via hotkeys, "easily" done while micro'ing a fight...