increase maximum selection count of units

[Raymond]

Since Alpha 16 there are improvements in performance, so please increase the maximum selection count for units (current 200).

Recommendation: 250

Maybe make an option in the game settings to select maximum selection of units.

[Michael D. Hafer]

Why?

[Niek]

Indeed, why? I never would use more then 200 of the same units at the same time. Maybe more than 200 in total but then I always assign units to groups (through Ctrl + #)

[Raymond]

The point is: giving the player the maximum freedom of their units and removing limitations (a little bit).

If it is to slow then increase the limit to 250 in A18, A19, A20... when implementing more performance fixes...

[Raymond]

For Alpha 18: please upgrade to maximum selection of 250 units.

[historic_bruno]

Replying to raymond:

Maybe make an option in the game settings to select maximum selection of units.

I would favor this, because someone might increase the population limit in a mod, then the selection size should have the possibility of increasing as well.

[elexis]

I wanted to report this too. Indeed it is unlikely that one selects more than 200 units simultaneously. However if one does, a random subset of those units is selected, so that formations are lost and some chaos remains.

[elexis]

Random selection of 200 units

[Raymond]

There are so many performance fixes in A18: maybe maximum selection of 300 units is possible.

[Niek]

Gah, I never select more than 50 simultaneous since I would put them in selection groups.

[fabio]

Removing the limit would be nice, however #2179 should be fixed before.

[Andy Alt]

As of A23, the max unit count is 300.

[elexis]

Not that I know of, selection.js:

// Limits selection size
var g_MaxSelectionSize = 200;

I don't know if 300 is a better number either, in observermode you might want to select all units of a battle.

(Especially in observermode when there are multiple players and unit types, I wonder if the units shouldn't be grouped by unit-type.)

[Imarok]

Move tickets to In-game UI as UI & Simulation got some sub components.

[Freagarach]

As discussed with elexis on ​IRC it might even not be needed/desired.