Civ3: Interface - easily missed tips

[cort]

Originally posted by Pogue Mahone
Does the demographics screen tell you the population of your entire empire? The only way I can figure out to do it now is to get the populations for your various cities and add them up. Has anyone else figured out a better way?

demographic tells it of course.. together with your rank..

[Pogue Mahone]

Thanks, cort

[Steve Clark]

Excellent thread.

ps SkyDog, good to see here finally! Bucc

[Sky Dog]

Bucc:

I've lurked here for quite some time, just haven't posted much. These poor guys don't know what has hit 'em with the dawn of the ravings of this madman.

[Steve Clark]

Ben:

Ah, but nothing can be compared to the Madness of Yin and his kind. Makes our old crowd seems like a bunch of amatuers.

[IBNobody]

You forgot...

CTRL-E - Establish Embassies
CTRL+SHIFT+E - Plant Spy
SHIFT+E - Conduct Espionage

BTW: The espionage commands are TERRIBLE. If you don't know the hotkey, you can't plant spies. ::grumbles::

- Nobody

[IBNobody]

You forgot...

CTRL-E - Establish Embassies
CTRL+SHIFT+E - Plant Spy
SHIFT+E - Conduct Espionage

- Nobody

[donarumo]

It seems obvious they should have included a quick tip card with all the shortcut keys. Most of these are in the guide but some are not.

Also, mostly because I'm a mouse person, I wish there was some way to access these functions with a mouse even if it meant (as an option and not for everyone) cluttering up the interface with menus similar to SMAC. SMAC had some good menus!

[skink]

Also,
[ctrl]-[shift]-G pops up a list of cities that you can select for the unit to go to.

[HalfLotus]

Right click on a city to view the units inside it.
Click on units to wake from fortify,
Hold shift and click to wake more than one.

[Soren Johnson]

This one in non-obvious, unfortunately, but very useful:

Shift+Right-Click on cities to change production...

[Soren Johnson]

Originally posted by Soren Johnson Firaxis
This one in non-obvious, unfortunately, but very useful:

Shift+Right-Click on cities to change production...

oh, I also wanted to mention that the interface is designed so that you do not have to ever go to the city screen if you don't want to (in fact, that is how I play...) I am curious if anyone has been playing this way, or have the short-cuts been hidden too well?

[Zealot]

Originally posted by Soren Johnson Firaxis
I am curious if anyone has been playing this way, or have the short-cuts been hidden too well?

Are they in the manual for players to find them?

Edit: Or, more important, are they stated in the online help of the game?

[Soren Johnson]

Originally posted by Zealot


Are they in the manual for players to find them?

Edit: Or, more important, are they stated in the online help of the game?

well, everything is in the manual AFAIK, but for people who just like to jump in, it might not be so easy...

[Blunderdog]

I'm at work, so if this is in the manual, shoot me. Is there any way to find out when your trade agreements end? Or when you can end them without starting a war?