Selection Rank/Hierarchy Feedback

Thanks for implementing it.
I find it convenient because you can select units without having a consider cons that are building around in that area(was a huge annoyance previously).

My primary frusturation has been inability to select constructors promptly when they are mixed in with other units. I suspect I've lost more constructors unnecessarily to this than to moving my constructors with my army by mistake but I'm not certain of it.

I disabled it after some games. I think it should not be enabled by default.

I didnt even notice it exists. I never cared about suiciding cons cuz I never mixed them with units.
And even if they were mixed by accident, I simply selected the blob, told it to go right, then choose only cons with unit selection panel (shift + LMB was it?) And tell them to go left. Viola.

Im too orthodox for such innovations. Especially when I dont know how it works, and am too lazy to do some research.

So is that the thing that disables selecting cons?

I kinda liked being able to select all units and order a general Fight order before microing the specifics.
Fight in ZK is smart, unlike in other games like SC, and it's often useful to give those orders to cons.

I have used a homegrown widget called "accidental commands blocker" for at least couple of years and it provides similar functions, yet slightly different.

The issue I was trying to deal with with this widget was that in the heat of combat I often needed all my combat units to make a final push or something similar, so I dragged a selection rectangle over the group of units present on my screen, pressed Ctrl-Z or Ctrl-X and went for the push. More often than I'd like I was accidentally selecting a cons along with the combat units, therefore after I Ctrl-X/Z-ed the selected units all my build orders for the nearby or even all conses got cancelled. It was taking quite an amount of APM to restore the build orders and I was often late to notice conses were part of the combat group.

So I made a widget. Basically it tracks if Ctrl-X/Z was pressed recently enough (2 seconds, configurable) and if group was mixed (meaning combat + cons units) and order was to move, fight, attack or stop, then I blocked such order and displayed a huge text warning.

Back to the topic, I found the selection rank widget solves similar problem, but in a different way. And I personally found it useful. Having that said it's probably worth placing a button somewhere in UI to disable/enable it globally.

I really like having the option. It took a bit of tweaking but I got it to a place where it complimented my play; not selecting my commander with my units, but selecting builders with my commander, for instance, and separating AA/artillery from frontline. I'm not sure if it should be default, or if all units should start on 1, to make life for new and old players easier.

I find it pretty useful and saved my day at least once.
Thank you very much for implementing it.

I use both selection hierarchy and command dragging, even tried using First-Order-Orders.


My com is on con rank too, should be default

In this case constructors should be highest rank too. I include them in armies even more often than coms because they're expendable and reclaim just as well, but I definitely don't want to just leave them behind.