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Old October 31st, 2003, 10:28 AM

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Default Re: Some minor UI gripes

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Originally posted by Psitticine:
You can zoom to a province with the keyboard by typing # and then the province's number. The province numbers are in parentheses next to their names both on the map itself and in the Nation Overview screen.
That's 3-5 key-presses for every single province you want to visit - that gets annoying real fast. You have to either remember the province numbers (which doesn't work for PBeM games which you'll only play a few turns of every week - intermixed with other Dominions 2 games.) or you have to open the nation overview to look them up, adding a minimum of two more key-presses (and a context-switch) - not to mention that you can't even scroll through all the provinces in the nation overview with the keyboard at the moment.

In UI design stuff like an extra keypress or context-switch matters a great deal.
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