@macdeffy said in Small suggestions topic:
As much as I like the draggable queue (and i understand it has bugs) sometimes i really just want a build this unit right now, and then go back to the previous queue, without fiddling with it. Yes i know you can stop all but one current unit and then add unit, but then there goes my queue. Would be nice to have a hot key (alt maybe?)- click unit, and then back to more important things.
If you have 2 factories, and one is assisting the other (let's call them the "lead factory" and the "follower factory") then the follower is building units from the main factory's queue and those units rally to the main factory's waypoint.
You can select the follower factory and put something into ITS queue. Whenever a follower factory has something in its queue, it won't stop building whatever it's working on, but as soon as that unit rolls out, the follower factory will start building from ITS own queue, and send that unit to ITS own waypoint, not the lead factory's queue/waypoint.
If your "follower factory" is set to infinite repeat, it will never "finish" working on its own queue, you will have to intervene somehow to get it to resume following the "lead" factory.
But if it's NOT set to infinite repeat, it will only make its own queue one time before returning to following the lead factory.
This lets you do things like: click on a supporting factory and tell it to make 2 mobile AA. You will get only exactly 2 MAA without disrupting your main factory's queue. You can click on a supporting factory, put an attack-move order to some reclaim, and tell it to make 3 engineers. So you can get some reclaim engies out without disrupting your main queue. Click on a supporting air factory to make a strat bomber, when it's done the support factory will go back to making ASF. etc. etc. etc.
Perhaps if you only have 1 factory, you should have enough APM to micro it to get what you want. And if you have multiple factories, probably some of them should be supporting other ones.