Hey, I'm pretty new to Warlight. Just played my second Local Deployment game and got booted with a 3 minute manual boot time just a few seconds over. I know, I should probably just play with a longer boot time. But it takes so much time to deploy and transfer units, and you can't "commit" till you've deployed everything, and it's easy to miss one. I can't imagine doing this on a larger map.
http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=7063966

It'd be nice for an optional "auto-deploy and send" feature for each bonus territory when playing with the Local Deployment game feature.


Thanks for all you do to make this a fun free game!

Edited 9/22/2014 04:51:43

Welcome to WarLight!

You're right it can be quite tedious to deploy in LD games on big maps or maps with lots of bonuses. One of the downsides of WarLight's flexible customization is that it's possible to create settings that aren't fun.

An auto-deploy idea has already been posted to WarLight's features forum, you can vote on it here: https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/5702941-auto-deployment-in-one-territory-bonuses-when-play

In the meantime, I'd suggest simply avoiding playing LD on big maps or maps with lots of bonuses, especially in games with quick boot times.

Hint - use q, a, z buttons to speed things up. Also don't "watch" the whole turn, but just click "move by move" buttons manually (with possibly stopping in more important moves).
This should help you to manage your time much better not only in maps with LD, but in all big maps/games with low timer.

(q - is for "previous stage", a - "next stage", z - "commit")