Civ3: Interface - easily missed tips

[gentleben]

apparently ctrl-M changes your mobilitzation...whatever that is...I havnt got it to work but its in the manual..

[Bblue]

opps

[Libertarian]

Originally posted by gentleben
apparently ctrl-M changes your mobilitzation...whatever that is...I havnt got it to work but its in the manual..

Normal or wartime mobilization. Details in the Civilopedia.

[Fidel]

Originally posted by 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

um, you just double click on the intelligence agency icon in the city you've built it in, i guess...it took me some time to figure it out

[SGB]

will ctrl-N do railroads as well?

[mactbone]

Pollutionis wrong it's
Shift-P = worker runs around cleaning pollution

[Earthling7]

Great thread... I love the Shift-N command (haven't tried it yet)
But why are those commands not in the interfase as in SMAC?

Soren: I visit the cities less and less. Never for changing production. Only for taking a look or changing the work tiles.

[Antonin]

It's funny that all of these tips are in the manual...some of the people who started to immediately flame Civ3 and claim it is "broken" because they can't figure out how to do this or that were saying "the manual is crap! completely useless!"

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Soren Johnson Firaxis


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?

I've been trying to avoid going into the city screen whenever I can -- now I'm getting into the habit of shift-right clicking (which was covered in the readme, btw ), it's getting a lot better... not to say that is isn't normally a few clicks or look-ups-to-find-key-command's too many, but I'm managing to stay out of the city screen for everything except city-related functions.

-- adaMada

PS: Soren/Firaxis/whoever's idea it was to make the shift-right-click change production command: One word -- Thanks!!!

[GenTomGun]

Diplomacy

I found another hotkey...do not know if someone already mentioned this one....it is used within the diplomacy screen....
someone complained that if you are playing w/all 16 civs or at least more than 8 you cannot view their portrait in the dip. screen therefore you cannot see what peace agreements or wars etc they may have w/other countries...i found that you can change which civs showup in the dip screen by holding down ctrl shift first then right clicing on a the portrait of a civ that you want to change...after that a list will pop up and you pick which civ you want to show on the dip screen....i thought that was pretty handy...however can be very time consuming..i think........but it helps when you are playing agaisnt more than 8 civs...............................GenTomGun

[Emos]

Great post...I thank you for the tips!

[GenTomGun]

HHEHEHEHEHE

Bumpy

[Malkuth]

All I have to say is great job man. This stuff really is usefull. Didnt realize you could disband update units from the Military Advisor screen. This saves so much time.

THANK YOU.

[Knasboll]

Ctrl-G to revolt. Shift-U (or was that Ctrl-U?) when a unit is active to upgrade all similar units.

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Knasboll
Ctrl-G to revolt. Shift-U (or was that Ctrl-U?) when a unit is active to upgrade all similar units.

It's shift-U for all units, u for an individual unit.

Keep up the good work all :d: :d:!

-- adaMada

PS: If you're finding a lot of this is all new to you, I highly suggest reading the key-command chart in the manual and also the readme that came with the game -- I did both, and there's only been about one supprise as to what is doable so far for me, though I couldn't always remember the exact keys...