Queue troops in barracks differently

I don't know whether this occurred to anyone before or not but depending on the army composition you want to make, I think you should be able to queue troops just like in the spell factory.
In spell factory currently:
If you have 1 freeze, 1 jump and 1 rage spell and then you add another freeze spell in the queue, then the 2nd freeze spell you queued will go on the 4th spot and will not be added on top of the first one.

http://i.imgur.com/ObsUXr8.png

Well I think you should be able to do the same thing with troops. I am a BARCH user mostly, but I also bring some wallbreakers from time to time. Well, it would be really useful to just queue in one barracks 30 archers 5 wb 30 archers and so on, just to make sure I bring those with me.
What is the current situation? Well, I usually increase the number of units to max before I go to attack because it's not always that I use my wb, but when I use them and I come back to the village I need to remove all the archers, put the wb, and put the archers back then. I don't know how it is for you but it is quite a pain to do this every 20 minutes a day.
This situation might occur with some other situations where you just need one different type of troop in the common troops composition and the same problem might occur.

I suggest it should look like this:

http://i.imgur.com/uDNoAgk.jpg

In the picture above is just an example of an army of archers which would also include 1-2 giants to lure cc and 2 wb for the heroes perhaps.

On another note, I looked at the ruled out ideas and I didn't see anything related to this. Please let me know if I misunderstood a line in the ruled out ideas.

Great idea, always tought about this.

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Originally Posted by JadJoud

Great idea, always tought about this.

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Same here, but never actually created a topic about this thing. Thanks for support.

Wow, this is one of the best ideas so far!

In the sticky with the ruled out list, it has "Customize troop builds = to order, permanent productions, saved queues, etc" listed. But... I'm not sure if it applies to this idea or not.

Despite that, my question is, how do you even pull off that kind of a complex queue of troop training with the current press and hold interface it uses now? You would have to change the user interface more than you are letting on about for it to possibly to work.

Added Edit: Just realized I said a 'bad word' when it comes to ideas for Supercell user interface design... 'complex'. You now have the added problem of making an interface that is intuitive and 'simple' to the average person. So as nice an idea as it is, you just opened up more of a can of worms than you expected to open up. :facepalm: Congrats , welcome to game designing. :p

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

In the sticky with the ruled out list, it has "Customize troop builds = to order, permanent productions, saved queues, etc" listed. But... I'm not sure if it applies to this idea or not.

Despite that, my question is, how do you even pull off that kind of a complex queue of troop training with the current press and hold interface it uses now? You would have to change the user interface more than you are letting on about for it to possibly to work.

Added Edit: Just realized I said a 'bad word' when it comes to ideas for Supercell user interface design... 'complex'. You now have the added problem of making an interface that is intuitive and 'simple' to the average person. So as nice an idea as it is, you just opened up more of a can of worms than you expected to open up. :facepalm: Congrats , welcome to game designing. :p

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The only thing which made me suggest this is the fact that Spell factory works just like I proposed the Barracks to do. That means in the Spell factory I can queue spells like in the image from the main topic, but I can also hold the on to the interface until it reaches the maximum number possible to be queued.
I am sorry if this did not answer your question but I did not understand it very well; my point is Spell factory works just like I want, so why not make the same coding for the Barracks. It is not like this is something which is not in-game yet, it is something that is only at a specific building in-game.

Edit: Yes I also checked the Ruled Out topic before creating this topic and I didn't really find that section against the topic so I crated it. I included a note at the end of the topic so in case a staff member finds this against the Ruled out topic he can remove my topic.

Agreed. This would def be helpful, especially if you donate out a few troops :)

Spell factories only have to deal with 1-5 spells at a time, not 20 to 75 housing units worth of troops. That is why you can get away with the ordered list of spells on the spell factory, but not the barracks. You would have to add extra steps into the training queue just to allow for different sized batches of units to be put in there own queue to train.

Currently, a press or long press just adds to the current group in queue for training. You can't press the buttons in any different a manner to split up a large batch of one unit into different batches.

Added to that, what is the program to do if you delete a batch between two similar batches of troops? Say for example in your illustration, you remove the Giant and Wall Breakers. Do the two archer groups stay as two groups of 5, or merge into one group?

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

Spell factories only have to deal with 1-5 spells at a time, not 20 to 75 housing units worth of troops. That is why you can get away with the ordered list of spells on the spell factory, but not the barracks. You would have to add extra steps into the training queue just to allow for different sized batches of units to be put in there own queue to train.

Currently, a press or long press just adds to the current group in queue for training. You can't press the buttons in any different a manner to split up a large batch of one unit into different batches.

Added to that, what is the program to do if you delete a batch between two similar batches of troops? Say for example in your illustration, you remove the Giant and Wall Breakers. Do the two archer groups stay as two groups of 5, or merge into one group?

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Well I obviously don't know much about coding so I will only stick the the suggestion and see what happens. Hard or not for coding will be up to the developers to decide, in case they would include this in the game.
Regarding your last line, yes they would be merged, JUST LIKE in the Spell Factory. If in the Spell Factory I would remove the Jump Spell in the image, the second freeze spell would merge with the first one.
Again, the main reason I suggested this is I found it possible in the Spell Factory, with all these things done.

Would be a useful feature.