How many of you did not know about F7 or F11?

[hwinkels]

Originally posted by TechWins
Um, none of your poll options fit for me. I found out about F7 and F11 by myself. I figured since F1-F6 all had a function I might as well try F7 and beyond to see if they had any functions and lone behold they did. Also, I found this out on my second game, but I could see how some may not have figured out the functions of the other F keys.

Me too. I knew about them within 2 or 3 days of getting Civ III. Nobody told me about them and I didn't see it in the manual.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Willem
Well seeing how almost all the games I play have some sort of F key command, it just strikes me as second nature to press them and see what comes up. I don't know, maybe I'm weird that way.

Yea, dont you just hate it when one of those "keys" reloads or quits the game....Happens all the time the first time...um...that was weird.

[Dis]

I voted wrong. I accidently voted no. I didn't like the other options.

I found out the easy way.

I pushed all the function buttons to see what they do.

[Skanky Burns]

I did the opposite to most people.

Since the function keys have been used in Civ since version 1 to give you access to extra information, I just presumed that it would be the same in Civ 3. And it was.

After a few games of using them, then I noticed that the little people at the side of the info screens changed, a different one was highlighted in each screen... well in some of them

[Gramphos]

I like Demographics so mush, I couldn't mis the keys. And I read the full manual before I installed the game. (not many gmes comes with paper manuals nowadays)

[Scientia]

I believe these function keys had the same function in Civ II . . .

[yin26]

My interpretation of the question:
F11

F7

[Code Monkey]

Where's the "It was obvious from the first time I played' option.

For crying out loud, it's a Civ game based on the SMAC code, what are the odds the F-keys didn't have some purpose? I sat down, I played, I clicked on the keys until I learned by memory what they all did.

[Skanky Burns]

Yin!!

Standing out from the crowd, as usual

[Dis]

I'll be honest. I rarely used the Function keys in civ2 or SMAC. I always used the pull down menus.

Only in civ3 did I realize how useless the menus are in civ3, and had to resort to the keyboard.

[Grumbold]

I found the keys very quickly but I do think that eliminating the menus that gave you an alternative and visibly obvious way of getting to all the different commands, screens and options in the game was a mistake. When I was playing Civ III exclusively remembering endless shift+whatever commands is easy. Now playing a mix of games one after the other and I'm forever reaching for the manual to find them again.

[DrFell]

Took me about an hour to find them, silly that there seems to be no other indications of their existance, considering how important they are.

[Worthingtons]

I actually think this is a good poll, because (while i now feel stupid saying this) I didnt know about these keys until I read something about one of the 'f' keys on here, which then prompted me to test them all.

They should have included these options in menus, for the lazier ones like me

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by yin26
My interpretation of the question:

That's exactly what I thought. I thought this was about easter egg special units.

As to the function keys, I found out by trial and error.

[Bautou]

I may be stupid, but I didn't know about the F7&F11 keys for the longest time until I read about it here. I did read the manual, but I guess I glossed over the F-key listing when I saw (thought) that they were all just shortcut keys for various screens you can get from the advisors.

Until I heard about F6&F11, I did think several times "Where's the Wonder screen?!!" or "How do I get demographics without retiring?!", but I just chalked that up to missing features. I do think it's a little bit poor interface for "shortcut" keys not to actually have a "longcut" method too.