Micro-level input about shotcaller-minigene HOT 2 OPEN

I believe that Milestone 1 could be further divided into 3 major steps:

1. Preparation of environment:

• Resource to set game mode. Options could be "default" and "micro-input". Should be change-able in-game and some systems (eg. Creep spawner, simple ai movement) should check it's value before running. Reason is that if micro-input is to be a separate module, then there will be a lot of systems that will be relevant only to this module, and vice versa.

• Custom game start/map with no creep spawning and all units idle. Further steps would add unit orders, therefore units should not do anything before any order is given.

• Add mouse support and cursor to the font-end. (Kinda works, but has some serious issues)

2. Unit selection:

• Decide on architecture. What part of the game stores what units are selected? Is this information stored in the unit itself, or are selected entity id's stored in a separate container?
• Implement selection of single unit
• Implement deselect by clicking empty space or selecting another unit.
• Multiple unit selection.
• Auto control groups (automatically assigned control group for each leader and their summons if available).

3. Unit orders and unit AI:

• OrderQueue component and UnitOrder type.
• Review unit AI (units should behave in different ways depending on what their current Order is)
• Implement idle order behaviour. Basically unit behaviour when no active UnitOrder is present. At current stage it would be: unit stands in place, moves and attacks enemy if it enters aggression radius.
• Implement M-move order.
• Implement stop order (clears OrderQueue of all orders, sets current order to idle)
• Implement Hold position order.
• Implement A-move order.
• Implement focus-fire order

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I'm gonna implement mouse support since I'm also gonna build the item buy system #16 that needs this dependency. I checked and bracket-lib has minimal mouse support with position and clicks data. I'm thinking of having a Selectable tag component attached to every selectable entity so we can iterate over it and check if the mouse position == entity position and then spawn a SelectEvent.

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