modding Areamex command to build llt near each mex

I would like to mod the areamex command to build llt near each mex, has anyone done anything similar to this?

Skasi Stumi I have a WIP widget that does that effect.

I'll throw it together tonight and stick it on the forums with a link for this topic.

It's logic will be "if mex complete == my mex then, identify parent builder, insert build order for LLT at (mex.x-whatever, mex.y, mex.z) into parent's front of order queue"

Widget complete! Download here:
http://pastebin.com/fFR1tYRy

Automates constructors that build a mex to include an LLT, radar, windgen, (and if sea) urchin, while preserving their existing queue.

EDIT: fixed an issue where the order queue behavior was wonky.

The people who would call area-solar command an AI.

quote: * ctrl - add solars, the same as ctrl+clicking the mex

Four solars sounds a bit much though. Personally I'd ever only want 1-2.

Stuff like this makes me wonder if some people would find it more enjoyable to design new CAI's than actually playing.

LLTs are a tiny APM investment. Unlike a mobile unit they're a one time expenditure. You could queue up a lotus next to every mex on your side of the map in less than ten seconds (unless it's really big). Even better, you could place them in all relevant chokes in less than five, saving you hundreds if not thousands of metal while also having a stronger defense.

Singular LLTs are rendered redundant very quickly by the scale of economies. They will not make cost vs. grouped raiders because grouped raiders benefit from Lanchester's law. If you want to make defenses you need to put thought into their placement by taking advantage of chokes and high priority locations to clump them, preserving their value by benefiting equally from Lanchestering. Saturating your entire territory in light turrets defends precisely zero of your territory adequately, while also slowing the rate at which you acquire additional territory.

No, not just for me. Objectively. You can make 100 LLTs with C -> W -> shiftclick -> drag -> click. A single LLT is C-W-click, and if you make them often enough this feels like one action, taking a fraction of a second (I'm still sluggish on defenses, but mex, solar, and wind gens all look like this for me).

This time and effort pales in comparison to the costs of a sub-optimal lotus automisation.

You keep making this distinction between yourself and other players, as you being too slow to perform without automisation. I think you wrong in this assessment. I think this game can be played effectively with an action every two seconds --- actually that could be interesting to test. There's a key-press detector in the widget list, I could set up a metronome to 30 BPM and play people, then post FPVOD as proof of actions. Hmmm...