Unit Pausing

[Man_At_Arms]

Allow units (such as transports for instance) pause.
This would put them in a "default" position, for air it would be to land or hover etc. While the unit is paused it can take orders but will not carry them out simply wait.

This will allow you to queue up multiple orders for instance.
board units -> pause transport -> waypoints shift queue etc -> unload command ->unpause -> unit carries out the order

[SC-Account]

Unit order pausing in general has been suggested many times.. realisation is the problem.

[Crotalus]

Submitted a patch which makes it possible to pause unit command queues:

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/502

[codepants]

This is not ideal but the current workaround is the have them assist a cheap unit, then give them their orders. Ctrl+k the cheap unit then they will do their stuff.

[The Mak]

This is not ideal but the current workaround is the have them assist a cheap unit, then give them their orders. Ctrl+k the cheap unit then they will do their stuff.

Have you tried (with the units that are assisting the cheap unit selected) Shift-Ctrl-Right Click on the cheap unit as that will remove the assist order?

[codepants]

This is not ideal but the current workaround is the have them assist a cheap unit, then give them their orders. Ctrl+k the cheap unit then they will do their stuff.

Have you tried (with the units that are assisting the cheap unit selected) Shift-Ctrl-Right Click on the cheap unit as that will remove the assist order?

Nailed it. That probably works as well. You could even use a mex or something instead of having to have a "cheap unit" all the time.

[Col_Walter_Kurtz]

So you would use this to set a predetermined path of orders that you unleash at a later point? Can you give an example?

[Hellcat]

Would be great to have this working

[nine2]

any chance to add 'add a delay to the factory queue' ?

like so it builds a scout, then it does nothing for 3 seconds, repeat

[Vee]

It would be even better if you could give different rally points to different units in a queue. Then you could build 3 inties -> to to rally point 1, 1 scout -> go to rally point 2.