Since Patch 3641 came out, I remade a template I often use. Now, however, several of the buildings later in the template are not placed next to the pgens; these structures, in addition to several T2/T3 AA, can only be built +/- one space away, instead of 0 spaces away, from my template. It feels similar to the inability to place a T1 PD or Wall Section adjacent to larger structures (say, a T1 pgen), except this now happens at twice the size. When I try to build the template, "small" mouse moves allow me to build +/- one space away in every direction. When the positioning is -1 space away, i.e. possibly overlapping with another structure in the template, it will nonetheless appear green (once the template is placed, this building disappears from the queue immediately - it is probably this building because it is later in the build queue).
I've tried creating a template intentionally placing these buildings exactly 1 space away, hoping I could then make a small mouse move and realign them, but when I do this the template then works perfectly (and skewed).
It makes including these structures in a template essentially useless; as a simple example, for a template of a Strat Defense, a few T3 Pgens, and another Strat Defense, the second Strat Defense is skewed. Since I overwrote my previous template after I'd laid down the structures, I can't even return to the template that had previously worked fine. The template had also worked fine in 3641/3642 until I replaced it.
Since I'm noting this, I'll also point out that even prior to 3641/3642, templates have a peculiar persistence. For example, if I have a template loaded and I'm searching for somewhere to place it, i.e. the only remaining action necessary is to left-click, and then instead of left-clicking the template I press "B,3,B" to change to building T3 structures and use a hotkey, it will still keep the template. Even after deselecting the unit and selecting again, the pressing "B,3", all the structures are the templates. The only way to actually build a T3 structure at that point is to click the image on the bottom UI, i.e. pretend as if hotkeys don't exist.
Finally, and again prior to 3641/3642, sometimes when I've "escaped" from having to build template structures instead of the desired tech level, the image of the structure will be properly sized but contain the first structure I wanted to build in the template. For example, if I were building a shield and had just had persistence of a build template which began with a T3 pgen, the dimensions will be correct (and it will be built correctly) but the image before executing will be a shrunken T3 Pgen.Statistics: Posted by Swaygin — 18 Jul 2015, 03:26
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