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Article #715767Re: Keyboard shortcut for selecting a city in Rise of Nations
From: Sheldon England
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:27
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:27
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Bofhluser wrote: > Does 'Control-c' work for you? That's the default key assignment for > selecting a city after you've found it. Isn't that supposed to change > the screen to the city view selected? I tried it in Rise of Nations > regular and Rise of Nations with the Thrones and Patriots expansion > but I can't get it to work in either. > > 'C' by itself finds the searched city, and 'Shift-c' selects all the > cities, but I can't get 'Control-c' to work. In the default hot-key > assignment page in the game, 'Control-c' is described as 'Select city, > without zoom'. What the heck does that mean? Whatever it is, it > doesn't seem to have any effect on the game. Been a while since I played RoN ... but don't you have to assign it to a number like you do with selecting units? I seem to recall that you selected the city so it is 'highlighted' and then press the control key and a number (i.e. ctrl-1) and from then on when you press the number 1 (no control key) it automatically zooms to that city. - Sheldon
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