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Engineering drones have awkward selection priority #6210

Open lL1l1 opened 1 month ago

lL1l1 commented 1 month ago

Describe the issue Engineering drones have different selection priorities and ones that are ill suited for their capabilities.	Unit	Capabilities	SelectionPriority
`UEA0001` ACU Drone	T1 build suite and 5 build power	6
`UEA0003` SACU Drone	T3 suite and 35 build power	6
`XEA3204` Kennel drone	no suite and 25 build power	3
Hives/Kennel stations	no suite and 25+ build power	5
Engineers	suite and build power	3
Empty priority		4
Structures		5
Transports		2

Expected behavior

Engineering drones should be easier to select than structures because they have more capabilities.
- But that idea is questionable for T1 suite drones, which is going to be around a high tech ACU but you don't want to select them and limit your selection to T1 tech.
Kennels should not be selected with other builders since they 1. auto assist and 2. have no suite and interrupt the user's flow of building

Possible solutions

Change SACU drones to priority 3, ACU drones to 4, and kennel drones to 4. Open to discussion of course!
For the case of obstructing tech, maybe the construction UI could be improved to allow placing higher tech structures than your selection allows, but it will automatically assist to high tech engineers when done so (ideally in a distributed way). The same could be extended to faction differences in construction.