Cloaked units are hard to tell apart

As it says on the tin. The "transparent shape" effect makes units hard to tell apart if you're looking from a distance, which you are because this is an RTS.

Two units I frequently mix up are conjurers are gremlins, since the're both innately cloaked and both have roughly the same size and shape when looked on from above.

Spiders under a cloaking field are a nightmare since most of them have the same shape and about the same size.

The transparent shape effect also makes blobs of units sorta meld together visually making it difficult to calculate how many units of each type you have under a cloaking field.

How about a different effect to signal cloak? Maybe some kind of circle on the ground or somesuch. Partial transparency may or may not work, would have to see it in action.

use radar-symbols. zooming out regularily has so many upsides beyond this that it is definitely a habit that will get you a few ranks stronger.

No units only radar signals is so ugly though.

It would be a dream if the shader or whatever didn't turn everything into clear pollygons. Say if defining parts of a unit were only translucent instead of clear, preserving some color.the rocket packs of recluse, legs of venom, redback body, weaver construction arm/casing.

Manored i didn`t suggest to micro in that state. And it`s exactly not "hacky" because it is not meant to solve your specific issue, rather your issue is solved as a byproduct of that.
Switching between zoomed out and in let`s you be aware of the map as a whole, helping your decision-making, your awareness of eco, just how things relate to each other.
Ofc if you micro, you should zoom in.

Your brain has enough capacity to remember the radar-symbols in your example, so if you zoom in again you won`t find it that hard to differentiate your units.

I mean, yes i see what your problem is and that you can search for solutions to it. I on the other hand realized that i never had that problem in the first place and think it is because i see my units zoomed out (radar-symbols) and in constantly anyway.

So, if you are looking to improve as a player, your problem gives you good hints on what you lack. CatMaster `s post goes into that direction as well.

yes

to quote my post above:

"I mean, yes i see what your problem is and that you can search for solutions to it."

Icon distance and render distance.

Scythe icon suggestion:

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