Phase Gate queue

locallyunscene

<div class="IPBDescription">Make it modifiable please!</div>I've seen mods where marines can choose the pahse gate that they want to go to but I find those mods more annoying than useful. I think the commander needs to be able to modify the pg queue. You could open a small window with a list in it like this:

0. MS
1. Hive 1
2. Hive 2
3. Double
4. Chokepoint near hive 3

and you want everyone to go to the spot near hive three so you can siege. Click and drag so the new list looks like this:

0. MS
1. Chokepoint near hive 3
2. Hive 1
3. Hive 2
4. Double

So everyone who spawns gets to the new siege spot first. Then double's under attack as a stalling manuever so you click and drag again:

0. MS
1. Chokepoint near hive 3
2. Double
3. Hive 1
4. Hive 2

Now your team can move to defend the new area quickly. I don't think you should be able to bypass phasegates completely, just change the ordering. I think it would be too complex to have to mess with a graph of pg dependecies and a list would be sufficient.

StixNStonz

A very good idea, but an addition of this size would likely have to wait until the NS2.

...I was going to say, add a button to make that pg the 'primary' pg, but that wouldnt actually work. The Marine Start PG is a pg just like any other. You'd need the Primary PG, and the Secondary pg... primary being the one in base, and the secondary being whichever one outside of base gets to be the first in the list. From there, the comm could change the secondary pg to wherever he needs his rines.

Frankly though, its fine how it is. When i want my marines somewhere, its a cost/benefit decision on recycling other PGs. But, recyc down to just the one PG, and a beacon ensures your entire team there. To take down a hive i often to that, and immediately tell one specific person to ninja the next hive or whatever. That way, the instant the first hive is down (and the ninja got his pg up), i beacon, sell the first PG, and BAM, entire team takes own the second hive within seconds of the first.

the_x5

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As far as this idea, something like this has been long overdue, in my opinion.

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