Hot keys in GalCiv II

Lots and lots...

Published on October 25, 2005 By Draginol In GalCiv Journals

Galactic Civilizations I didn't have many hot keys. This time around, we want to have lots of them.

Here are some of the preliminary ones (and if we have time, we'll make this configurable -- maybe for the bonus pack).

F1 through F4 are different views of the map.

1 Ship List
2 Planet list
3 Research Screen
4 Domestic Policy
5 Foreign Policy
6 Galactic Census
7 Ship Design
TAB Find next ship
SPACE pass on current ship (give up moves)
ENTER end turn
` Toggle grid lines
Delete delete current ship
' Find your toughest ship
; Find your most powerful fleet
G Open up Goto panel to send ship to a given destination
X Enter Rallypoint mode
R Bring up list of Rally Points
P Bring up most powerful planet in your civilization
B Build starbase with currently selected constructor
S Sentry currently selected ship
G Set current ship to guard
D Bring up details for currently selected ship or the details screen on selected planet.
+ zoom in
- zoom out
Keypad + zoom in on mini map
Keypad - zoom out on mini map
Backspace toggle screens that have fold in UIs.
Esc Options screen
Ctrl-S Quick Save current game
Ctrl-1 Bring up negotiation screen with Humans
Ctrl-2 " with Drengin
Ctrl-3 through 0 bring up negotiation screen with corresponding player
Home brings up home planet of currently selected ship. If no ship selected, brings up your capital world.

Any others you can think of?

Comments

Lowa11

on Oct 25, 2005

HOT KEYS??? *touches keyboard* OW the pain... the pain...

Lowa11

on Oct 25, 2005

really though sounds good!

Ryan Vincent

on Oct 25, 2005

Well I have an idea, 2 Ideas infact...

Ctrl + C Could send the nearest colony ship to the destination planet, In the options you can decide on either to have it send away a preset percentile of your population or manually set the colonists each time.

Ctrl + I (i) Would send an invasion fleet, As the same it would sent the closest Transport ship, However if a planet with Tir-Quan (Ur-Quan?) training is within a radius set in the options it will send a fleet from there instead.

I know it takes a bit of the fun away, But it will make things alot more efficient

MHaap

on Oct 26, 2005

Looks nice, but...
There is the typical problem with my keyboard layout in my country and with english layout.
";" Is under shift key, and even better if I want to get the " ` " I need to press Shift " ` " and then press space. The "+", "-", " ' " keys are IIRC located in different places in english layout and mine.
Unless these hotkeys can be customised, I quess I won't be using them

Just my 0,02€

Ryan Vincent

on Oct 26, 2005

Thats why it would be a very good idea to have it customisable..

CariElf

on Oct 26, 2005

Thats why it would be a very good idea to have it customisable..

It would be nice, but I don't know if I'll have the time before release.

CariElf

on Oct 26, 2005

Actually, I think that you might still be able to use those hot keys, with different keys. We're using the ASCII values of the keys, and those are OEM defined keys. So you would just need to find out what keys have these values:

186-192 and 219-223.

nitey

on Oct 27, 2005

Cari, If you don't have time to do a full customization, how about just making some of the keys customizable such as the F keys or Shift/Ctl F keys?

Disciple777

on Nov 02, 2005

Hot keys, me like it!!!!

Lowa11

on Nov 02, 2005

You know while im here i would like to bring up the idea of allowing you to team fleets (you know you Hold control+#) then you hit that number then its called up...without shifting view makes war much more manageble...However in GC1 (not sure if it will apply to GC2) War was extremly micromanged When the game was in full gear (mid-game) then it gets tedious to deal with war effectivly...so i suggest that some sort of Military advisor could be used that will handle ships for you depending on what you want?

Peace Phoenix

on Nov 05, 2005

I have problem in beta 4 with hot keys on a french computer with a french keyboard. I have posted a thread about that problem

Disciple777

on Nov 10, 2005

Change the keyboard to russian that may help (rolleyes with sarcastic grin and evil smile)

Steevodeevo

on Nov 17, 2005

please can we have a centre mini map on selected ship/plannet/station - whatever

also can the mini map re-centre around a mouseclick on the mini map pls.

PJ_

on Nov 17, 2005

please can we have a centre mini map on selected ship/plannet/station - whatever

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(I don't know why it's not on the list.)

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