Ok but you're losing complexity, and still need accuracy in that case. I think your suggestion would work for a turn-based game, I just don't think mobile is a good media for RTS.

Yes if you presuppose that mobile isn’t good for RTS then it’s not good for RTS.

Obviously an online RTS where some folks are on desktop and others on mobile may not be competitive. Fucking duh.

I don't think the poster was suggesting porting Starcraft to a touchscreen. It's a design challenge to figure out what changes need to be made to accommodate the genre for touchscreens. It's not obvious because people haven't put in the work yet.

It was a also a design challenge to make the genre work in the first place for mouse and keyboard.

I would argue you cannot port any RTS game, not just Starcraft. Mouse and keyboard are not a constraint, they are excellent for RTS, which is why the genre is also not so strong in consoles.

You can play Doom on your phone as well. That's not an argument that it is a suitable media for FPS.

And none of us are saying anything about "porting" we are talking about adapting the medium to a new format, but you seem convinced the only way to see it is exactly how it was designed in the 90s.

Downvote is supposed to indicate low quality, not disagreement, this is not a low quality comment.