Feature request: Button to disband units in overview

[Luke-Kitti]

Before creating

• This is NOT a gameplay feature from Civ VI, BNW, or outside - see Roadmap
• This is NOT a gameplay feature from Vanilla Civ V or from G&K - If so, it should be a comment in Missing features from Civ V - G&K #4697

Problem Description

I often needed to disband units to decrease the upkeep and earn more. But removing them one by one was a hassle, taking up extra time and requiring too many button clicks. I got to choose a unit on map, then click show more, then click disband, then click confirm.

Related Issue Links

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Desired Solution

I want to have a disband button in overview page for units tab.

Alternative Approaches

The disband button can be located after the unit name in that units tab

Additional Context

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[SomeTroglodyte]

I got to choose a unit on map, then click show more, then click disband, then click confirm.

Choose unit, "Del" key, "Enter" key. With that one PR... Unit actions dynamic paging #11002 - you no longer need to see the action to use the keyboard shortcut. Now don't say "but! mobile!" - you didn't specify. Still possible on Android with.... Anyway, no overview button, but way faster.

[SeventhM]

Still possible on Android with...

Uhhh... Bad copy-paste?

[Luke-Kitti]

Now don't say "but! mobile!" - you didn't specify. Still possible on Android with.... Anyway, no overview button, but way faster.

thanks for letting me know that I need to specify. Yes, it is on mobile. I checked out the link provided. As I understood, the solution is that I need to buy usb-c hub to connect to a keyboard to access those shortcut keys (del + enter), right?

[yairm210]

I think there is enough space to add a removal button, and I can definitely see the use case 🤔

[SomeTroglodyte]

One of these days I gotta learn people won't get when I'm joking - or half-joking which is most of the time. Of course I know mobile users won't simply go and buy a keaboard for a game... Though sitting in a Café with your fone+ bt-kbd + chinese micro-mouse ($6) and then do full remote desktop server maintenance on a rack box thousands of kilometres away is cool...

Thing is, I get it and it wouldn't be much of a hassle. BUT - That entire screen page was due an overhaul to get automatic interactive sorting like CityOverviewTab has, which would make such a disband button even more useful - but that got stalled on some minor hitch a while ago (was it selection as cities have a guid to find them but MapUnits don't??). Reducing the drive to go and do it. Also, which other unit actions might merit a button? Automate/Unauto/Wake up sleepers...?

[SomeTroglodyte]

Now that I've tried it - I wouldn't remove the confirmation popup, so it may not save as much time as you expect.

Code challenges (only on top of #11521) - refactoring the confirmation popup to reusable, as the UnitAction isn't (it does too much to the WorldScreen). Then moving UnitRenamePopup into the package where it belongs. The actual meat - new column - is trivial.

Then... The existing popup doesn't name the unit to disband, so that might confuse from the unit overview:

... which button did I click? We don't have a "selection highlight" in our grid - so - icon + name into the popup - or - (major) teach that grid to highlight a selection... Or hack the first column button into the mouse-over or down visual state while the popup is open? Nah.

[SeventhM]

which button did I click?

Why not try to have the popup use similar logic to what's already there for upgrading units?

[SomeTroglodyte]

Or making the WorldScreen disband confirmation Popup prettier too by reiterating who-you-wanna-fry, but the test branch is already too far from master having unmerged dependencies, See how that goes first.

[tuvus]

We could also add the right click menu to the unit button on the units tab. This menu could then have a disband unit button so we aren't adding another column and can add more things to the menu later.