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Hi Killer Rabbit,
we were certainly thinking about that. There is one problem - the damage penalty. Once you have this action "heal self to full strength" or "recover till to full strength", you will simply forget about that unit till it happens and it can be attacked and destroyed.
This would also considerably increase already long action bar on the button but foremost it will make the healing very complicated. We would basically end up with 5 healing buttons which seems to be an overkill.

Does there need to be a damage penalty? What about allowing fortifying do the same as the 10% heal?

I did finally realize that a city with a specific unit specialization would allow for this option - repair/rest unit x turns. So that's cool. I didn't realize how that mechanic worked and was getting frustrated when it wasn't showing up on other cities.

It has to be there. Otherwise it would just be an autoheal.
I tried to explain all four options here at the bottom.

In your game, healing and repairing makes a unit vulnerable. So if you want to heal faster, you have to accept a penalty to defense. It seems different from how other games have handled this so there's an adjustment to the player's thinking.

Makes sense healing a unit is effectively filling it with new raw recruits which would make for a lower rating than before when it was more experienced and possibly well trained up into a coherent fighting unit. Until the new recruits get experience the unit should be more vulnerable.

Even with penalty to defence i would still love a 'rest till healed' option

Originally posted by Implied Facepalm Deadmeat:

Even with penalty to defence i would still love a 'rest till healed' option

I agree. For instance you move your unit back to a city to heal, you could "rest until healed" without worrying to much about being vulnerable. (alternatively, with an "rest until heal" you can maybe add a feature to automatically wake the healing unit if an enemy is near). With the method of healing a unit , as it is now, it makes the game overly tedious.

Originally posted by Croaker:

maybe add a feature to automatically wake the healing unit if an enemy is near

Define "near". Let's say the unit is near a paved road. A cavalry unit could strike from quite a ways away. So I could see this being a challenge for the developer to add.

I think as a player though, it should be up to me to assume the risk of using the "rest until healed" option and being vulnerable for x turns.

Originally posted by Croaker:

Originally posted by Implied Facepalm Deadmeat:

Even with penalty to defence i would still love a 'rest till healed' option

I agree. For instance you move your unit back to a city to heal, you could "rest until healed" without worrying to much about being vulnerable. (alternatively, with an "rest until heal" you can maybe add a feature to automatically wake the healing unit if an enemy is near). With the method of healing a unit , as it is now, it makes the game overly tedious.

^^^This. 100%

Originally posted by Killer Rabbit:

Originally posted by Croaker:

maybe add a feature to automatically wake the healing unit if an enemy is near

Define "near". Let's say the unit is near a paved road. A cavalry unit could strike from quite a ways away. So I could see this being a challenge for the developer to add.

I think as a player though, it should be up to me to assume the risk of using the "rest until healed" option and being vulnerable for x turns.

^^^This is the solution. It's already heal-at-your-own-risk anyway.