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Give Puppies a "Reclaim" Command

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5 years ago
Would it at all be possible to give Puppies a modified reclaim hotkey so that you can draw a circle and have them manually walk off and start splitting? You figure construction units have this, why not give it to puppies? Granted it would have to be modified a little bit since they can only do it off of wreckage and not off natural reclaimable materials.
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This had been proposed back in 2017 but it is a minor convenience feature with comparatively large technical difficulties so is low priority.

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it would have to be modified a little bit

The little bits add up. The way reclaim is coded is that the unit must be classified as a constructor to use it which opens up a big can of worms:
  • Puppy now thinks it's a constructor, gets stuck trying to repair or build units it is unable to
  • Puppy on Attack-Move command prioritizes reclaiming over combat
  • Puppy is affected by things like the "select idle constructor" hotkey
  • etc

We wouldn't want to change this requirement even if we could because a lot of things already depend on it, but we can't anyway because it is hardcoded into the underlying engine that ZK uses. We would have to make a new command which resembles reclaim from scratch.
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5 years ago
Call the command replicate. Make the puppy seek and stand next to metal until it's disappeared. All spawned puppies will be born on replicate command.
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