Hotkeys for buildings?

[Simpa]

Is it just me or are there no hotkeys for constructions? There are hotkeys for producing troops but I can't see any for buildings?

[Lion.Kanzen]

There aren't implemented yet.

[Simpa]

Ugh that sucks. Thanks for  the answer tho.

[Lion.Kanzen]

We need any  programmer to implement it.

 

[Simpa]

Hang on..has this game been under developemen for 4 years + and still not hotkeys for buildings?

[Lion.Kanzen]

Is volunteer, nobody has interesting in implement, 

[Simpa]

Hotkeys are a part of the game? All RTS games have em'. Why don't the developers implement them?

[Lion.Kanzen]

2 minutes ago, Simpa said:

Hotkeys are a part of the game? All RTS games have em'. Why don't the developers implement them?

Because are busy doing other stuff like fixing bugs, implement new features, etc etc. And not all work at full time in the project.

@elexis or @Itms  can explain better the situation.

[Simpa]

If they want it to be a competitive game there needs to be hotkeys. I understand that they are busy, but I think hotkeys are such a common thing it shouldn't be too hard to implement? Anyways good game.

[Loki1950]

2 minutes ago, Simpa said:

Hang on..has this game been under developemen for 4 years + and still not hotkeys for buildings?

Closer to ten years which is quite common for any open source project all programming is done by volunteers so only easy or sexy things get done quickly and there are usually few volunteers so lots of work to do at any time hotkey expansion is not a priority with so many other issues to deal with much higher priority.

Enjoy the Choice     

[Simpa]

2 minutes ago, Loki1950 said:

Closer to ten years which is quite common for any open source project all programming is done by volunteers so only easy or sexy things get done quickly and there are usually few volunteers so lots of work to do at any time hotkey expansion is not a priority with so many other issues to deal with much higher priority.

Enjoy the Choice     

darn, that's a lot of time  I appreciate the time you guys put down on the game but please put up hotkeys on your schedule. I love competitive gameplay and pretty hard to be fast clicking on every building.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Yes, when I try AOK and test and improved my style of gameplay in that game... I miss after when change to play 0 A.D and are missing to jump to the CC for example main.

[sphyrth]

Put the buildings in a control group. That's what I currently do while I wait for the hotkeys.

[Simpa]

Btw, this is not topic related, but how do I make my army attack an enemy building instead of capturing it?

[sphyrth]

17 hours ago, Simpa said:

Btw, this is not topic related, but how do I make my army attack an enemy building instead of capturing it?

Ding dong! We have a new addition to the FAQ.

Press Ctrl

 

[balduin]

@Simpa What do you mean with hotkeys for constructions?

[Lion.Kanzen]

3 hours ago, balduin said:

@Simpa What do you mean with hotkeys for constructions?

Select a villager, press a hotkeys to build a structure example press F to build a farm.

[Lion.Kanzen]

There are similar.

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/1899

[feneur]

I actually think that the biggest issue in this case is that there is a need to come up with good hotkeys, and that probably requires re-thinking some existing hotkeys etc, so it's not just implementing the actual hotkeys doing the action which is probably not very difficult.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Needs change central panel keys and camera movement keys (QWEASD)

[niektb]

I prefer to keep QWEASD for camera movement (or at least WASD, rotating the camera is not necessary)

[elexis]

We already have more hotkeys than keys on the keyboard, some are UNUSED. But it's a good thing, because it allows players to chose which keys they want to use. The hotkeys need to become configurable in a new GUI dialog though, as few people go as far changing their config files.

After that, we should indeed add hotkeys for specific buildings in my opinion. It should be possible to assign B to barracks without having to fallback to the group hotkeys which have to be reset manually every game. We have to decide which entities will be available though and how they are going to be linked. There are hundreds of units and buildings available, so likely many useless choices. Which identifier would we use (without adding custom identifiers making the code ugly)? How do we avoid distinguishing the civ specific differences (barracks should work for all civs.) One option would be using the Identity.Classes or Identity.VisibleClasses information, but that also contains useless choices, like Village (for all village phase buildings) for example. Seems like we have to add a custom (sub)set of identifiers :/

[sphyrth]

4 hours ago, niektb said:

rotating the camera is not necessary

Not for me. I often prefer to align myself at the bottom of the map so that I can expand "upwards". I've also seen at least two Youtubers who like looking at the front of the buildings. Not to mention that there are maps (the ones with mountains for example) that kind of forces you to rotate the camera just to plunk down a building nicely without blocking your view.

[feneur]

We actually have a double set of hotkeys for camera movement since one can use the arrow keys as well (and with Ctrl to rotate), so the QWEASD keys could be used for other things without losing the ability to do things.

[niektb]

AOEII uses the arrow keys only and I find it really uncomfortable to move my arm so often over such a great distance. (So much that I stopped using them and only use the mouse even though it's slower)