Suggestion: Maintain Base Command

I'd like to see a widget or gadget implement a "Maintain Base" area command for construction units.

Click-drag a circle; any buildings within that circle get rebuilt if destroyed.

Lua it?

You might want to delay the rebuilding a bit, since having a builder lumber into a herd of raiders and start rebuilding the mex they just blew up isn't very helpful. Also, queueing up multiple "maintain" commands should make constructors maintain both areas, which allows for awkward base shapes if you didn't want them rushing over to that mex over there. Finally, they ought to reclaim anything in the area when there's no repairing or rebuilding to be done, as with the Patrol/Fight commands.

>You can do this currently using repeat commands.

I'll try that, thanks.

>you could make cons patrol in your base (or area), they would repair and reclaim/rebuild destroyed structures at the exact same position

Yeah, that sounds more like what I want. Maybe no new command or UI is needed, just an additional task for patroling or idle cons to do when the opportunity arises (along with the usual repair and reclaim tasks).

Maybe you wouldn't want that behavior in all locations, though - near the front lines you probably only want cons repairing and reclaiming, not rebuilding (since it would just be wasted metal). So maybe have a UI to designate individual buildings as rebuildable, or to designate zones within which all buildings are rebuildable. Then when you need stuff rebuilt just send cons there and they'll take care of it themselves.

>Lua it?

I probably will, someday, if nobody else does first. But I'm hoping someone with more skills and time will beat me to it. :)