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keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:59 pm
by rambo098
is anyone using the keyboard when playing?

and if so,witch shortcuts are you using(when)?

Rambo 8)

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:20 pm
by huGGy
I'll try to use all of them. I also put shortcuts on my building so that i can build new vills without leaving the screen from a fight. T=TC, V=new Villie. Always needed. And also strg+building key (like b for barrack). You should use them, you can play much faster.

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:27 pm
by Sporting_Lisbon
^Yeah I do exactly that too. When I have to build a building with a vill I also use the hotkey, i.e. E for house.

I also use ~ or / (depends on the keyboard) for explorer and alt to check units hp.

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:27 pm
by Blackadderthe4th
I like to put my barracks and TCs in ctrl groups, that way I can build from multiple ones without my screen jumping allowing me to focus on the battle (or more likely whipping idle vils into line :twisted: ).

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:58 pm
by kingchrisII
Yes straight away i put my TC as 1, so that i can fololow my explorer more without lesving the scrren if im fighting a trerasure guardian
and i leave my explorer on the default / lol....now and agin i put my rax/stable/art on 2/3/4

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:57 am
by 36drew
Better question is what shortcuts and hotkeys don't I use LOL. I'm really not very good I just have them all memorized, which helps my gameplay a little.

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:31 am
by I__CHAOS__I
I'm prob too old to use more than 5 hotkeys (1-5)
On a good day I might use '/' or 'T' sometimes

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:05 pm
by MrChristy
I always use the T to go to town center and V to make villagers. I also use SHIFT + W to make 5 ashigarus and CTRL + B to go to barracks :D oh yeah and / to go to explorer and . to go to idle villagers.

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:19 am
by IndyBrit
Hot keys are one of the pillars to moving to the next gaming level. They don't only make things faster, they let you do things you just can't without them. For example, if you control-group your barrackses (?), you can build new troops and change the gather location (e.g. to the battle that's ongoing) without moving your screen and continue micro-ing your troops in battle (micro-ing being another of the pillars to moving to the next gaming level).

Let's say you build a barracks outside your opponents town and put it on control-group 5, and put that barracks gather point inside your opponents town. Now, you can go about your daily business and anytime you feel like it, hit "5", build 5 pikes. You just sent a 5-pike raid into his town without interrupting whatever else you're doing - and he thinks you are omni-present and able to hit him anywhere anytime.

Learn all the hotkeys and practice them, and then move up to control groups. I always put barrackses on 9, stables on 8, artillery on 7, and TCs on 6, just so I never have to think about it during the game.

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:47 am
by Crazy
I've been wanting to learn most if not all the hotkey's, but It would be too much for me lol. I'm only used to doing like MrChristy, and I've only now started to control group my barracks and stable lol. I always control group my armies though. In the end I think I'm a major mouser :-P

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:52 pm
by LaZy
Using your keyboard is just as important as using ur mouse! Both are fundamental in any have decent online computer game. Any1 ever tried playing AoK on ur PS2?

Out

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:51 am
by djdan
[quote=""LaZy""]Using your keyboard is just as important as using ur mouse! Both are fundamental in any have decent online computer game. Any1 ever tried playing AoK on ur PS2?

Out[/quote]
Yeah I do, I have it for both ps2 AND PC, thats how my interest sparked for the Age Series, first playing it on my PS2. It is REALLY difficult if I remember(havent played it in AGES).

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:15 pm
by kingchrisII
i have it on ps2 too very hard to play, much easier on pc