more than 9 unit selection ?

[calipso99]

Hello, always wondered if anyone has ever made a mod that lets control more than 9 units. always felt a bit a limited by that. thank you

[Mistral]

not possible
too much hardcoded
this is not even problem with interface like icons buttons amount (but this is also would have been VERY hard to fix)
but the main problem is that amount of 9 is tied everywhere in net code
like you select group of 1 to 9 units game send packet of this size to others and also you can ctrl+1 save control groups, all code working with those is strongly harcoded to the many arrays of 9*4 bytes size and they all used and REused in many places of code
so you cannot just change like one number 9 in 1 place
there will be like hundreds or even THOUSANDS of lines of code that harcoded to this size
and the main problems is not even changing them but
to FIND them ALL, that is what is VERY hard
and you cannot afford to miss it
if you miss even 1 its possibly can actually change nothing but also possibly this 1 place can cause some very cursed bugs which will be unknown what is even happening

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Didn't warcraft 2 remaster add the ability to select more? You could select up to 12 men in one go.

A side note you can select 18 men in the PS1 port if you wish get a ps1 emulator on pc like epsxe and play that one if you want more than 9 units but it got lots of faults like missing pissed off sounds , and death coil icon being swapped with death and decay icon LMAO and all units have 1 death sound which is the human one.

[Mistral]

they have human readable code
so its was way more easy for them to change

[dannyldd]

Didn't warcraft 2 remaster add the ability to select more? You could select up to 12 men in one go.

A side note you can select 18 men in the PS1 port if you wish get a ps1 emulator on pc like epsxe and play that one if you want more than 9 units but it got lots of faults like missing pissed off sounds , and death coil icon being swapped with death and decay icon LMAO and all units have 1 death sound which is the human one.

the only things that are better in my opinion in comparison to war2Combat, aside from remastered graphics that some people like, are either the 12 selectable units OR health/mana bars. If these 2 features can be set in war2Combat, i think there will be nothing better than Blizzard's stuff, unless they come up with huge new update with way more stuff

[Pandaprewmaster325]

they have human readable code
so its was way more easy for them to change

Hmmm you Said its very difficult to find some parts of code I assume you talking about vanilla wc2?

Didn't warcraft 2 remaster add the ability to select more? You could select up to 12 men in one go.

A side note you can select 18 men in the PS1 port if you wish get a ps1 emulator on pc like epsxe and play that one if you want more than 9 units but it got lots of faults like missing pissed off sounds , and death coil icon being swapped with death and decay icon LMAO and all units have 1 death sound which is the human one.

the only things that are better in my opinion in comparison to war2Combat, aside from remastered graphics that some people like, are either the 12 selectable units OR health/mana bars. If these 2 features can be set in war2Combat, i think there will be nothing better than Blizzard's stuff, unless they come up with huge new update with way more stuff

As a wc3 player I can't play RTS anymore without HP bars shown all the time its essential.

[Mistral]

war2 BNE