Expensive units shoting useless stuff

A few times after having targeted an ennemy my lance/phantom/felon, my unit will shot the nearest unit they can... usually half a second before the ennemy I targeted is in range... it feels bad.

Is there a way such units hold fire only when I target an ennemy?
Is there a way those units do not fire certain ennemy units unless told to do so (ex: felons shoting razors...)

Thank you,

Nite

I am looking for a hold-fire until ennemy units dies only when there is a selected target option, otherwise it can shot at whatever (preferably not razors and lowcost/high-hp-stuff). Does it make more sense? Or perhaps I misunderstood what you meant :/

Is there a way to script such option?

https://gofile.io/d/mBhtUY
better get the updated ones https://github.com/zenfur/xcom-zero-k-techrepo

Make me some button graphics for targetting [anything/just raiders/medium units/heavies] and I'll finish this off:
https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/pull/3886

Then you'll be able to decide what you want your Phantoms, Merlins, Berthas, Artemises, Lances and Starlights to target.

hi

Designing an icon will be tricky because it needs a few states and there are already a few icons to do with shooting (Hold Fire, Overkill Prevention, the Lobster toggle).

Icons don't have much space to work with and they are either monochromatic, or monochromatic with some white. The colour pallet is limited to a particular green, yellow, red, grey and white, and a grey icon tends to be used for the default.

So I tried hacking together a set of untistate icons for this then.






The top is default, no limit.
Then we have red high-value, yellow medium-value, and green low-value.

Since we're talking about unit weight (actually cost) maybe it could look like one of these:



With different colors (handle not needed).

Could use one, two, three lines inside it to differentiate the weights. Or the letters L, M and H.

BTW, we seem to be talking about a "shot-everything/light units only/medium units only/heavy units only" toggle.

However, I think that a "shot-everything/mediums and heavies/heavies only" toggle would be more useful.

I mean, plenty of units with slow reload times have good reasons to not shot light and sometimes medium units. But they're rarely going to have reasons to shot mediums but not heavies.

The currently proposed targeting system would be inconvenient if you want your lance to not shot glaives, to shot knights, but still shot dantes as well, for example.

Meanwhile riot units already seem to do a good job of prioritizing the close raider over the more distant heavy unit. They don't need a toggle making them fire at light units exclusively.