Here's the menu allowing you to buy ships in groups, although it doesn't do anything yet.  The hotkeys for this menu are the soft keys.  This menu will NOT display if you are buying a Scouter.

The dollar sign allows you to buy a single ship.  The plus sign allows you to add a ship to your group.  So if I was currently using 2 Degrusers, pressing + would allow me to use 3.  The minus sign button takes away a ship from the group.  The dollar sign / arrow allows you to buy the maximum amount of the type of ship possible.  The check mark is the "done" button.



Difficulties have arisen that make it impossible for me to include shadows in S.A.D. Alpha 3.  To make up for this, I will add money-making capability to S.A.D.  One can make money, lose money, buy refineries, upgrade refineries, etc.

QUARRY

The Quarry is the Ptaloid Refinery.  The manual will comment that the Quarry builds actual "workers" rather than "processing nodes," even though both the Quarry and the Refinery function exactly the same way.

Part of the difficulty involved in S.A.D. is making sure that a player will use a particular unit at least once every 2-3 games.  I watched expert games of Starcraft 1 and noticed that the queen and the Dark Archon were rarely used, because not many situations called for them.

I didn't want that to happen with the Human Tank, the Ptaloid Pauk, and the upcoming Tosonian Borce.  So I updated the purpose of an "Artillery" unit.  A unit with artillery can splash damage up to five units in a group.  Artillery cannot be used against air.

HAWK / STAR TANK

I will upload images later.

The Hawk / Star Tank is like the Viking in Starcraft II, even though I didn't intend it.  The Hawk is the Tosonian's air superiority unit, and the Star Tank is the Tosonian ground-to-ground unit.  Both can be detectors (when researched), both can switch from one to the other (when researched), and the Star Tank can hold plasma torpedoes (when researched).  

Also, the Hawk can be transformed to another unit on-the-fly.  The Star Tank can only be recieved either at an "Operation Center/Transformation Gateway," or by changing Hawks to Star Tanks.  Star Tanks cannot transform on-the-fly.




DEGRUSER

Since the Degruser was invented by the Tosonians, they have this unit available to them.  Degrusers cannot transform on-the-fly.

Tosonian Degrusers do not have photon torpedoes or mines.  They do, however, have the deflector shield that the Human Raptor owns.  Tosonian Degrusers also have an electron shield that bounces ANY shot (including the Degruser's own fire power) in the opposite direction it was fired.  The shot will lose half its power (rounded down) when bounced back.  The deflector shield is a deterioating upgrade and requires sephrane gas (and the enemy won't know it's in use).  The the electron shield will last until destroyed and is a refillable upgrade.

I just tried this yesterday, great job Hot_Dog. One question, what do you have to do to check the building progress?

Go to cursor mode (press the MODE key), and place your cursor over a wrench (aka building under construction.)  You can also put your cursor over a building like this to see how many HP it has.

Sorry for not finishing the Xaos yet! I am at 75% but I am quite busy with the OT-calc stuff now. Sorry, but don't despair, it will be done soon. I'll take a look at ce the the next week, I expect a release at about >=20 august.

Don't worry, I'm way more concerned about the CE, and you're certainly progressing on it.  Remember, it will be months (if not 1-2 years) before I can implement the Xaos.

I found a bug where pressing "clear" will always exit the program, even during a menu.  Please do not report this bug to me since I am aware of it.