One thing i should clarify is that i didn't mean you couldn't build multiple factories, just that one type of factory building would eliminate a lot of micro management and chasing of engineers.

In your opinion not having an engineer would let you do things OP in the game?  I'm not sure how, could you please elaborate on that line of thought?

An RTS, obviously, but not the same one that has been made 50 times already.  I don't feel that eliminating some of the base building micromanagement aspects of chasing engineers all over the place and spending 50% of your time managing resource gathering/base building/and building upgrading. 

When 50% of your time is spent on base management, it turns into more a game of who can manipulate the interface the best and less about who knows what troops to build, scouting properly, and countering your enemies moves/attacks with proper strategic decisions.

I understand that the RTS genre has been all about base building, management and resource gathering focus for many years now, and it is difficult for people to envision anything but that stereotypical gameplay.  In the end, most RTSes from the past decade are unforgiving on early game base building requirements, and so aren't really about who is the best strategist or tactician, but merely about who can build the best base in the most efficient manner early game, and the late game is just about utilizing the early game economic victory to pound home a military victory.

Take Supcom as an example.  Early economic victory almost guarantees the military victory.  But play supcom with the 8x resource mod and it becomes less about resource management and base building than it does about who scouts, what strategy they implement, how well they counter the enemy strategy, and map control.

Again, just my opinion, but i don't think removing some of the micromanagement or interface mastery requirements would turn this into an arcade game.

I would suggest simply to automate the engineer - like the construction frigates in Sins of a Solar Empire:

When you conquer a region, 1 or 2 engineers would spawn. You just plop build orders from the building menu, and the engineers would automatically go and construct the buildings you plopped. If you wated to, you could click an enguineer and tell him to build something else - again, just like the construction frigates n Sins of a Solar Empire. If an engineer gets killed, a new one would spawn after like a minute or something. That way you solve both the micromanagement of engineers, and still keep it for those times you need it.

Hmmm, I think engineers should be in this style of game, as they make an important target.  Without them, you have basically no way to stop your opponent from building things unless you destroy building being built.  Sins of a Solar Empire, like egelon suggested, is a good mix of both having engineers and less micromanagement buildings.  They would auto build whatever you placed around a planet, but they still have to build and made perfect targets for slowing down construction by a great deal.  That's the important point here, engineers are ALWAYS targets if they are nearby, since they can push the offensive closer by building factories and such.  Without them, it is a bit overpowered as mentioned by ASADDF.

I can partially concede the point on the smarty scenario ASADDF.  If it was close to the enemy base though, it probably wouldn't live long if the enemy was in the process of building a military, but i do see the "rush attack" OP issue, so that does make sense and make it less appealing. 

A couple people mentioned autobuild with engineers as sins does it, and that might be something to consider as well, giving general build orders and available engineers automatically move to carry them out without having to micro your engineers. Being able to set an engineer autoreplace function might be nice as well.  Along the lines of that, I start by building 5 engineers, and if an engineer dies, then autobuild a replacement.

Being able to set general orders for engineers to follow might be good as well. 

1. Build engineer

2. Set engineer instructionset to autobuild/autoassist/autorepair, which it would follow and limit mandatory commands to the engineer.

Just some thoughts.  I was originally trying to open up discussion and get some people to brainstorming different ideas to limit micromanagement and actions per minute requirements.

I agree with you somewhat.  At this time, the micro in this Beta is a step backwards from SoaSE.  I spend as much, if not more time with extractor and engineer micro, and hunting down destroyed extractors, and then even MORE micro to rebuild them, than I do with strategy. 

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