What Are the Stanard Hotkeys?

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posted on July 13th, 2009, 10:23 pm

Last edited by funnystuffpictures on July 16th, 2009, 4:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Ok. I know I can look in the tooltips, but those are just for building. I want to know what hotkeys for commands like: Guard, Scout, Patrol, Alerts, Atonomy, and any others. Like I saw in te standard Armada II a commendeer hotkey, but they've all been changed. My memory is ready for new information to assimilate to improve gameplay. 

[glow=yellow,2,300]Update from Zebh[/glow]

Here are some hotkeys that are useful. This will be in the next version of the Hitchhiker's guide.

---

To hotkey fleets: select units, hold down control and press a number. To deselect a unit from a fleet, have the fleet selected, hold shift and click the desired unit. Now hold control and press the same number of the fleet. You can also remove a ship from a fleet by selecting it and pressing control and the minus key. Also, you can add a ship to a fleet by selecting the ship and then pressing shift plus control plus the fleet number. To ensure that units immediately enter your fleet from the shipyard, you can also hotkey shipyards.

You can issue waypoints for ships by holding tab and clicking. The vessel will begin moving as soon as you release the tab key.

Autonomy hotkeys are in your keyboard's number pad.



Autonomy level
[align=center]Low[/align]
[align=center]Medium[/align]
[align=center]High[/align]



Weapon autonomy
[align=center]7[/align]
[align=center]8[/align]
[align=center]9[/align]



Movement autonomy
[align=center]4[/align]
[align=center]5[/align]
[align=center]6[/align]



Special ability autonomy
[align=center]1[/align]
[align=center]2[/align]
[align=center]3[/align]




Command hotkeys



S
Order the ship to stop current action (attack/guard/patrol/explore/transport...)

A
Orders unit(s) to attack

T
Transport. Start transporting at target (Note: the target's shields must be down).

P
Set your selected vessels to patrol between their current location and the target location.

G
Set your selected units to guard friendly target. The selected units follow the ship that is set to be guarded and attack any hostilities which are threat to it.

E
Set your units to “explore mode” which essentially scatters your units.

K
Sets units to search and destroy mode. The ships will scatter around the map and attack any enemy target they find.

R
Repair. Send the ships for yard for repair and recrew. If the ship is recrewable, this hotkey will recrew the vessel instead of sending it to yard for repair

Shift+R
Priority repair is same as the repair, except that the ship will ignore other orders/enemy vessels until it is fully repaired.

Delete
Decommission selected units




Unit selection hotkeys

Double clicking a ships icon or a fleet number will center your camera directly on that ship/fleet.


Ctrl+A
Select all your vessels that are visible in your screen

'
Select next idle non-combat ship




Station hotkeys



R
Recrew station. Stations can't be recrewed when under attack.


Starbase


C
Build constructor

F
Build freighter

Shift+S
Extend supply routes



Research stations and Shipyards


Ctrl+C
Cancel current ship/research

B
Open the build/research list

P
Set the rally point




Interface hotkeys



Alt+G
Show/Hide grid

Alt+Enter
Switch between fullscreen and windowed mode

Ctrl+I
Hide user interface parts (cinematic window/ unit list/ minimap and menus)

PrintScreen
Take screenshot with user interface visible

Ctrl+Alt+P
Take clean screenshots without user interface.

posted on July 13th, 2009, 10:39 pm

I will experiment a bit and try to add them into the next version of the guide: a few are already in there... but not a lot

[funnystuffpictures]

posted on July 13th, 2009, 10:49 pm

Last edited by funnystuffpictures on July 14th, 2009, 12:51 am, edited 1 time in total.

hmm... Yes that would be good. I am reading you guide right now. Maybe have a whole section for it

posted on July 13th, 2009, 11:10 pm

Indeed: depending on how big it gets, I probably will have to! 

posted on July 14th, 2009, 11:53 am

The file 'Input' in the game directory should tell you every hotkey used by the game. I'm sure it is that one...

posted on July 14th, 2009, 1:05 pm

Thanks Tyler, quite impressive. I will check it out soon 

posted on July 14th, 2009, 7:09 pm

This is what the Input file says. I've allready looked this and dont think some of them work. 

###########################################################
# Action Menu Shortcuts (top level of Button Bar/Palette) #
###########################################################

# Recrew
recrew {
+ keyboard R
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Transport
transport {
+ keyboard T
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Comandeer
capture {
+ keyboard T
- keyboard Control
+ keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Set rally point
rally {
+ keyboard P
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Harvest (dilithium/latinum)
#harvest {
# + keyboard H
# - keyboard Control
# - keyboard Shift
# - keyboard Alt
#}

# Colonize a planet
#colonize {
# + keyboard GreyInsert
# - keyboard Control
# - keyboard Shift
# - keyboard Alt
#}


# Modifier key to enter a waypoint
enter_waypoint {
+ keyboard Tab
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

#######################################
# Orders menu, corresponds to buttons #
#######################################
# Attack
attack {
+ keyboard A
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Stop
stop {
+ keyboard S
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

guard {
+ keyboard G
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
patrol {
+ keyboard P
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to repair mode
repair {
+ keyboard R
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
#Priority repair
priorityRepair {
+ keyboard R
- keyboard Control
+ keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Set to explore mode (formerly scout mode)
scout {
+ keyboard E
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set search and destroy
searchAndDestroy {
+ keyboard K
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Decommision
decomm {
+ keyboard GreyDelete
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

###########
# AI menu #
###########
# Set to green alert
green {
+ keyboard Home
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to yellow alert
yellow {
+ keyboard UpArrow
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to red alert
red {
+ keyboard PageUp
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Set to no movement autonomy
move_low {
+ keyboard LeftArrow
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to medium movement autonomy
move_med {
+ keyboard Keypad5
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to high movement autonomy
move_high {
+ keyboard RightArrow
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

# Set to no special weapon autonomy
special_weapon_autonomy_none {
+ keyboard End
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to medium special weapon autonomy
special_weapon_autonomy_med {
+ keyboard DownArrow
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}
# Set to high special weapon automony
special_weapon_autonomy_high {
+ keyboard PageDown
- keyboard Control
- keyboard Shift
- keyboard Alt
}

posted on July 14th, 2009, 7:24 pm

O.K. Folks. According to Zebh these are the Autonomy Hotkeys:

On the numpad:

789=alerts. 7=green, 8= yellow, 9 = red.
456= movement
123= special

posted on July 14th, 2009, 8:08 pm

Ok. Its confirmed. IT WORKS! YAY

[Zebh]

posted on July 16th, 2009, 1:34 pm

Last edited by Zebh on July 16th, 2009, 1:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Here are some hotkeys that are useful. This will be in the next version of the Hitchhiker's guide.

---

To hotkey fleets: select units, hold down control and press a number. To deselect a unit from a fleet, have the fleet selected, hold shift and click the desired unit. Now hold control and press the same number of the fleet. You can also remove a ship from a fleet by selecting it and pressing control and the minus key. Also, you can add a ship to a fleet by selecting the ship and then pressing shift plus control plus the fleet number. To ensure that units immediately enter your fleet from the shipyard, you can also hotkey shipyards.

You can issue waypoints for ships by holding tab and clicking. The vessel will begin moving as soon as you release the tab key.

Autonomy hotkeys are in your keyboard's number pad.



Autonomy level
[align=center]Low[/align]
[align=center]Medium[/align]
[align=center]High[/align]



Weapon autonomy
[align=center]7[/align]
[align=center]8[/align]
[align=center]9[/align]



Movement autonomy
[align=center]4[/align]
[align=center]5[/align]
[align=center]6[/align]



Special ability autonomy
[align=center]1[/align]
[align=center]2[/align]
[align=center]3[/align]




Command hotkeys



S
Order the ship to stop current action (attack/guard/patrol/explore/transport...)

A
Orders unit(s) to attack

T
Transport. Start transporting at target (Note: the target's shields must be down).

P
Set your selected vessels to patrol between their current location and the target location.

G
Set your selected units to guard friendly target. The selected units follow the ship that is set to be guarded and attack any hostilities which are threat to it.

E
Set your units to “explore mode” which essentially scatters your units.

K
Sets units to search and destroy mode. The ships will scatter around the map and attack any enemy target they find.

R
Repair. Send the ships for yard for repair and recrew. If the ship is recrewable, this hotkey will recrew the vessel instead of sending it to yard for repair

Shift+R
Priority repair is same as the repair, except that the ship will ignore other orders/enemy vessels until it is fully repaired.

Delete
Decommission selected units




Unit selection hotkeys

Double clicking a ships icon or a fleet number will center your camera directly on that ship/fleet.


Ctrl+A
Select all your vessels that are visible in your screen

'
Select next idle non-combat ship




Station hotkeys



R
Recrew station. Stations can't be recrewed when under attack.


Starbase


C
Build constructor

F
Build freighter

Shift+S
Extend supply routes



Research stations and Shipyards


Ctrl+C
Cancel current ship/research

B
Open the build/research list

P
Set the rally point




Interface hotkeys



Alt+G
Show/Hide grid

Alt+Enter
Switch between fullscreen and windowed mode

Ctrl+I
Hide user interface parts (cinematic window/ unit list/ minimap and menus)

PrintScreen
Take screenshot with user interface visible

Ctrl+Alt+P
Take clean screenshots without user interface.