What do you like most about Zero-K?

discuss the poll, what did you vote and why?

I wanted to vote the last option "This poll hurts too much, I cannot pick one.. " since i like ZK for reasons:
-Micromanaging my units, using cunning tactics to defeat superior forces
-Picking the correct overal strategy, managing resources and gaining economic advantage

but settled for the first eventually. :-)

Most of the time I enjoy 3 things:
- teamplay moments
- micromanaging units
- watching the stuff explode

Those 3 things give me most fun. Also sometimes I like to use commander in combat.

I would like to use my com in combat but it dies so fast and you cant replace it :(

Bes Thing about Zero-k in regard to other rts i play is : The User Interface

Mex building by drawing a frame over the stuff , command stacking,you can draw the Formations and so on.Never seen that anywhere else

What could be improved :

1.
You can use the Star-like Building menu for single builders ,but not for Groups of Builders,forcing you to use the slower Menu in the lower Left Screencorner to order around your Constructor Gangs.

2.
Supcom 1 FA has the Ability to save & drop preconstructed building Clusters like (for Example) a Shield-Gen surrounded by LLTs as one Command ,which speeds up Construction a lot.

3.
And you cannot drag and drop already set Waypoints to new Locations (Supcom 1 FA).

ahh another SC FA decendant!

yes, point 2+3 are very usefull and i miss them here, especially the "move commands position from the command queue".

can someone make a ticket for that? -.-

3) is already a widget called unit_waypoint_dragger. It is at the bottom of the widget menu.

2) it is a bit situational and we already have Ctrl + Shift click to surround a building. But if someone made a widget to do this it would be included.

It does support that Skasi, but its disabled in default settings.
I voted for option 1, I like watching big robots and exploding stuff. It is the only option imo that is unique to zero-k compared to other strategy games around. teamplay, outthinking enemy and such are present in all strategy games.

I really like that the widgets are customizable AND you can play MP games with own widgets, even if I miss the compatibility of really useful widgets between *A and ZK and the bugs of some chilly widgets.

"Supreme Commander 1 - FA" has 3 advantages with maps and pathing:
* Everything is either completely flat or extremely visible (cliffs, etc).
* You only have normal units, hovers, air, ships - no spiders or tank/kbots (as far as I remember it).
* No Terraform.
That is one thing I miss in zk.

Maybe I like only zk but not the engine ^_^.
One thing that we could do for zk is, to display the F2-view when you build something (it shows you where you can build) and scripts which level the terrain, makes round ramp stepness either toward 66% of vehicle or bot pathing, etc.
It would look a bit artificially, but would be better playable (less annoying).

Because the luacode is not as clear as in "Supreme commander1", where even turret turn rates are in unit blueprints and not model script files it feels like a step back, but Zero-K is open source and the only open source game with active development, divided into engine and game, widgets and gadgets and good looking models.

There are 4 default build widgets - everything with one disadvantage:
* Integral menu -- need very much space on your screen.
* Radial menu -- don't display units for normal factories
* Keyboard menu -- don't display things like jump
* Gesture menu
* EVERYTHING depends on integral menu, but only because of unit states.
I like the variety, even when I think why can we not at least merge keyboard+integral menu, fix the gesture menu and give gesture menu a second key for unit states.

It would be nice if there would be more cooperation between the single mods.
* developement of different unit theme packs with models and scripts for mods (requires more compatibility between mod models or a bigger community.).
* widgets which work in all mods (requires standards for global build lists, etc.)

I like rolling over the enemy with a large number of a tough, boring unit. Feels good to grind over all those wacky noob units and morphed boys with simple tanks

While I feel automation is great, I think it merely enables the strategy and guesswork that determines who is better. To the extent that automation lets you do what you intended, I support it.
- Will they attack here, or over there? This attack of mine will meet a counterstroke in 30 seconds. My ally's push is overextending, I should secure his flank... etc. etc.

Although that goes pretty far and covers all tactical AI. My personal opinion is that we'll never get strategic AI to any decent level even if we tried.

Intuition and anticipating enemy responses is hard. That is where the game is at.