About the geographical & political mini-map

[Ralf]

They should give that geographical & political minimap in the main game-screen yet another option.

Why not make it a 3-way toggle by adding a strategic resource availability map, as well. One colored dot for each indevidual strategic resource. Theres only 8 types of strategic resources in the game, and not so many of each, so that mini-map shouldnt be too cluttered.

Also, while im at it:

WHY are there only keyboard access to the Wonder-list screen, and the top-five/demographic screen? Firaxis should add interface-buttons as well. And the zoom-function, and the Clear map-function shouldnt be hided away in some 2 level deep game-preference menu either. Put them in the main screen instead.

[Malleus]

Agreement

The keyboard interface and the graphical interface feel like they were made by two teams who were kept apart and thrown together at the last moment. I feel they are really disconnected and wonder if that sort of thing is patchable...

K

[simwiz2]

you mean theres a key to get to the demographics and wonder screens?

all those times i have retired needlessly, then reloaded, just to check if i still had the top 5 cities...

maybe firaxis should finish the interface

anyway so what is the key to get to the screens?

[adaMada]

Originally posted by simwiz2
you mean theres a key to get to the demographics and wonder screens?

all those times i have retired needlessly, then reloaded, just to check if i still had the top 5 cities...

maybe firaxis should finish the interface

anyway so what is the key to get to the screens?

They're both F-something...

Can't remember exactly which, and don't have time to look it up now, but if you go to pages 196-200 in the manual, it'll give you a list of all the shortcut keys in the game. For more information (and many other answers to questions), see The CIV3-GENERAL FAQ: COMMON QUESTIONS/COMPLAINTS/ARGUMENTS and their ANSWERS.

Or, if you want to, you can do what I do... hit F-1 through F-12 and see what each of them pop up (almost all of them are shortcut keys for various screens). If you're smarter than me, you can then write it down .

Good luck either way!

-- adaMada