Different Move Types

[tals]

What is the difference between the different move types for units.

As I understand it there are 4? moves

attack move                  -  alt right click
free roaming move          -   v right click
attack own units            -   x right click
move                            - right click

But if you move a unit then it is going to attack any other units on the way?

Free roaming move I understand because it moves to where requested and then will hunt for other units. However i'm still not clear if it can 'see' a unit across the map or does it have to fall into range. Also units that are stopped seem to be almost blind to other enemy units - if it's outside the ships range does it ignore them if not in free roaming move.

Tals

[liq3]

There's actually 4 kinds.

Normal Move - yeh...
Attack move (alt+move) - Will stop and attack any units that get in range. Will also give chase if they leave range. Once that unit is dead, they will move to their destination.
FRD - Will attack any enemies on the current planet, always. If not attacking enemies, will move to their destination.

Group Move (G)- can be combined with any of the above. Makes all the selected units move at the slowest units speed.

[tals]

Thanks that clarifies it perfectly - the attack move in particular had confused me.

[Fiskbit]

x+right click isn't a movement type, but rather just lets you attack enemy ships you otherwise normally won't attack (specifically, capturable ships). Why would you want to do this? I don't know. It's there if you want it, however.

More information about this sort of stuff is available in the materials in this thread.

[tals]

More information about this sort of stuff is available in the materials in this thread.

Agreed - although the above is the only place I could see what the actual move types meant - could be a wiki addition?

[tals]

More information about this sort of stuff is available in the materials in this thread.

Agreed - although the above is the only place I could see what the actual move types meant - could be a wiki addition?

I'm talking rubbish - I hadn't realised there was a second page to the key  Clarifications are on that.

[dumpsterKEEPER]

So this seems a good a place as any to ask a question I've had: what's the difference between putting a unit such as an engineer in Attack-Move mode versus FRD mode? The shortcut reference only refers to putting engineers/mine layers in Attack-Move mode, but doesn't say anything about FRD mode. However, from what I've observed, I get very similar behavior from either. Is there a difference between them in this situation?

[x4000]

So this seems a good a place as any to ask a question I've had: what's the difference between putting a unit such as an engineer in Attack-Move mode versus FRD mode? The shortcut reference only refers to putting engineers/mine layers in Attack-Move mode, but doesn't say anything about FRD mode. However, from what I've observed, I get very similar behavior from either. Is there a difference between them in this situation?

No difference in that situation for those units.

[dumpsterKEEPER]

Ah ok, good to know.  I initially got into the habit of putting them in FRD mode, then noticed that the shortcut keys list showed Attack-Move mode and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.