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A couple of things

April 4, 2013 8:44:12 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Firstly there is still the bug from the original Elemental: War of Magic whereby holding down shift causes the mouse to jitter.

The second thing is that when moving pioneers to a spot which by then they run out of movement points, if autoturn is on it will end the turn. This is mildly irritating because you can settle or create an outpost when the pioneer is out of movement points and would be handy being able to settle before the turn has ended

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sweatyboatman
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Reply #1 April 4, 2013 10:40:08 AM
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The second thing is that when moving pioneers to a spot which by then they run out of movement points, if autoturn is on it will end the turn. This is mildly irritating because you can settle or create an outpost when the pioneer is out of movement points and would be handy being able to settle before the turn has ended

Auto-turn in all games is annoying.  Just turn it off.

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Reply #2 April 4, 2013 11:52:11 AM
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Quoting sweatyboatman,
reply 1


The second thing is that when moving pioneers to a spot which by then they run out of movement points, if autoturn is on it will end the turn. This is mildly irritating because you can settle or create an outpost when the pioneer is out of movement points and would be handy being able to settle before the turn has ended

Auto-turn in all games is annoying.  Just turn it off.

I already have done. It would be nice if the feature was amiable.

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Reply #3 April 4, 2013 12:20:08 PM
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Agreed.  I guess they could change it to make it not end turn if your unit reached its destination. It could treat that unit as still having moves until you actively look at it.  I tend to think trying to implement such behavior would reveal other weird interactions and cause more problems than it fixes.

I think auto-turn is good for new players as it makes the game move.  But once you have the hang of things, it's pretty useless.

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Reply #4 April 4, 2013 12:27:56 PM
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Firstly there is still the bug from the original Elemental: War of Magic whereby holding down shift causes the mouse to jitter.

I had extreme difficulty in getting this to happen on my computer. In fact I couldn't reproduce this effect what so ever. I held down shift rotated the screen moved the mouse around for a good 10 minutes and couldn't get this to happen. How did you get this to occur?

edit: Ahhh it was the right shift that can cause this effect, but only after I rotated the screen while holding shift and moved the mouse around thereafter holding shift. If I did the same with the left shift it didn't reproduce the effect.

Once I let go of shift it returned to normal and I could hold either shift without jittering, have to rotate the screen to cause the effect. But it is very hard to notice the jitter even when it was happening.

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