I use the hotkeys V(villager) H(Town Center) .(idle villager) E(house) what other ones are important???
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Shanks13 Rogue Agent
posted 12 June 2007 10:40 PM
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Being able to group and select groups is useful. To group, have some units selected, and then press ctrl+#. To add to the group, have the unit(s) you want to add to the group selected, then press shift+the group number. You can only have up to 30 units in a group. To select a group, hit the number you want.
DeathAndPain Mortal
posted 13 June 2007 02:18 AM
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The A-key is extremely important, as it performs something that you cannot do with the mouse at all. Select some units, then press A, then left(!)-click on a target area to issue an attack-move to your units. They will walk there as if you had right-clicked there, but attack anything they encounter on their way. Had you done a right-click, they would have let themselves be slain on their way without ever fighting back.
Chain up attack-moves by holding down SHIFT as you issue them to create waypoints for your raiding force. This way they will visit one remote mine after another, until they find enemy vills at one of them, which they will then attack automatically. All the time you are free to focus your mind on something else.
Darkness is a state of mind Valor is the contempt of Death and Pain. (Tacitus) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. (Piet Hein)
a_game_a_win Mortal
posted 13 June 2007 06:54 AM
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You might want to move your idle villager to space bar, because it's easier to hit all the time-and idle villagers is very bad.
IMO you should play around and do what you're comfortable with. I like to keep all my hot keys in the bottom left corner so I can have 1 hand comfortably get to all my keys
, (idle military) is important (and everything you have mentioned)
Get all your economic buildings on hot keys (very important if you play Eggy or Greek!)
Military buildings are closely the next important.. and finally when your confident with all that start hot-keying things for all your units.
^ That's just my suggestion.. some people will differ in opinion but I think that's the order of importance.
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Shanks13 Rogue Agent
posted 13 June 2007 12:57 PM
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I like the idea of moving them all to a certain area, I find I have trouble keeping my hands on the keyboard. Is there any good way to correlate keys and the items they select?
a_game_a_win Mortal
posted 13 June 2007 01:43 PM
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Try and keep all your hotkeys on "qwerty", "asdfg" , and "zxcvb"
Ex. Archery range is A
So to build it, push ctrl+a while you have selected a villager
to find it, push shift+a (although this is buggy for me, cause it will only go to one and not keep cycling through.)
And to train units, I push q for Toxote and w for peltast
Only thing that I could justify clicking are techs and units that have not yet been grouped/aren't worth grouping. If you have any other clicks, adjust to using hotkeys instead.
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Shanks13 Rogue Agent
posted 13 June 2007 04:01 PM
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Might as well toss this out there: If you are intent on learning your hotkeys, be prepared to lose some of your rating. If this is something that scares you, make a smurf account. Basically, as it has been said before, go into a game with the hotkey(s) you want to learn in mind. I wouldn't recommend more than a few. Throughout that entire game, use only those hotkeys to do what you want to do. Ex: I want to learn the villager train hotkey and the idle villager hotkey. So, during the game, I only use the V button to train villagers, and the . to find idle villagers.
As you continue learning your hotkeys, keep using all of them, don't forget one and have to re-learn it. Your rating will probably drop some due to a slower reaction, but as you get better, it will rise above what it previously was.
Kang_the_Mad Mortal
posted 13 June 2007 04:38 PM
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The A-key is extremely important, as it performs something that you cannot do with the mouse at all. Select some units, then press A, then left(!)-click on a target area to issue an attack-move to your units. They will walk there as if you had right-clicked there, but attack anything they encounter on their way. Had you done a right-click, they would have let themselves be slain on their way without ever fighting back.
Chain up attack-moves by holding down SHIFT as you issue them to create waypoints for your raiding force. This way they will visit one remote mine after another, until they find enemy vills at one of them, which they will then attack automatically. All the time you are free to focus your mind on something else.
Thanks, I didn't know how to do that before.
DeathAndPain Mortal
posted 14 June 2007 05:20 AM
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Note that you can also issue an Attack-order without using the A-key: Just hold down the Alt-key while right-clicking on the target location. You can hold down both SHIFT and Alt to waypoint Attack-moves that way.
Darkness is a state of mind Valor is the contempt of Death and Pain. (Tacitus) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. (Piet Hein)
Shanks13 Rogue Agent
posted 14 June 2007 12:23 PM
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So I set up all my hotkeys last night and made sure they all worked against the AI. I have about half memorized (thank god for a fast memory) and the only thing I have trouble with is keeping my hand on the keyboard.
I have found it much easier (especially as Greek), if you set the units that train from your buildings, usually military, as ASD(F). That way, you can just leave four fingers on the keys and be able to train most of your units. Works best as Greek since each of their military buildings in classical trains a mainline and then a hard counter.
SSJVegetaTrunks Mortal
posted 14 June 2007 12:25 PM
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I should probably use more hotkeys. I used a couple before, but now the only ones I remember are H and V.