metal excess issue

In cluster game, when I manage micro demanding units (like troll com or skuttle) metal excess becomes an issue.
I constantly have to check my metal bar, and if it's almost full, I hit tab, wait 1 sec because of lag in cluster, look for highest level player and share him metal just a little to not share to the lob team :-(
Time ago, someone gave me a widget to automatically share excess metal to the best player but I lost it (and I am not sure that this script worked properly).

Could we have an option (default off) to automatically share excess metal to the best player?

Thank you <3

Pressing Tab multiple times is to be avoided since it is one of the last laggy bits of UI. It could be a good place to put an option for ongoing metal sharing.

Ask me for a widget and I shall provide one to your specifications.

quote: Pressing Tab

this is somehow bound to zoom toggling and the keybinds is reset EVERY game.

meaning, if i want to donate metal, the screen flips nonstop between zoom-max and back to zoom-current, while the donation-menue is open by 'holding' tab.

on the plus side, the framrate drops only to 0.0034787898 while donations are possible.

quote: Storing metal is non-ideal but its better to store metal and then spend it on something useful than to immediately spend metal on something useless.

If you have a factory, odds are you can spend the money on something useful right now.

If your factory can't build anything useful, you can build a factory with something useful right now.

If you don't know what to build, you can go assist somebody else's factory right now.

A valid reason for storing metal is all your constructors are moving to some other location to build a factory and you have enough build power capacity to spend it.

If you spent metal on scouting you won't need burst building. I'm still not convinced that saving metal is good play, maybe sort of a bandage for bad reactive play. It's not the worst thing you can do, but don't be surprised when somebody calls you on it in teams.

Edit: Ok, disregard me. I'm arguing with blue player here...

mojjj Tab is not map overview by default, and if your keybinds reset then you have some crash or permissions issue.

Well, like I said, its non-ideal. A perfect player would never store metal. A non-perfect player may not always immediately know what they should be building, or where. Having enough storage to account for a few seconds of inaction is useful for such players, I think.

That being said, I don't currently build storage unless my com is dead. I feel the starting 1000 storage provides enough cushioning for any reasonably sized economy.

why storages ARE needed

1. they're cheap (a investment of 100m will return 500m in case of overflow)
2. Overflow is inevitable - reclaim. if the enemy is advancing upon a reclaim field you need to reclaim the shit asap which means OVERFLOW
3. it saves micro (duh)
4. You can enjoy the game better when you dont have to worry about mass overflow
5. did i mention burst demand?

Why auto-metal share IS needed:

1. if im going all-in on the trollcom then i want to not worry about facs yet i dont want to take up metal. so i want to donate a part of my income to my teammates so they can do some work (this applies to micro-intensive units as well


What auto-metal share needs:

1. at what percentage (of buffer) should auto-share start (default 100%)
2. how much of income to share (default 100%)
3. top (%) of your team you want to give more to (default 100%, so everyone is equal)
(you can't give everything to one player as nubz will be even more upset at the army difference, favored players get 3x metal)
4. players with (%) of metal buffer full to be ignored (default 80%, so anyone with 80% or more metal wont get any onerflow share. if everyone is over this threshold then it will be given to the player with most remaining storage (Not percentage based))


problems:
1. people creating smurfs to get more income