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Old January 6th, 2005, 09:17 AM
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Default Good and Simple UI tips

I still think that new features (such as full alliance building, improved AI) will truly make dom3 a *new game* (as oppossed to an expansion pack), but I think the UI suggestions will certainly help.

Here are some more good ones, I think, which I believe would be relatively easy to implement:

- The Ctrl-p (or some other hotkeyable key) cycles through all commanders set to "Preach".
- The Ctrl-m (or some other hotkeyable key) cycles through all commanders set to "Cast Monthly".
- The Ctrl-r (or some other hotkeyable key) cycles through all commanders set to "Research".
- The Ctrl-f (or some other hotkeyable key) cycles through all commanders set to "Forge Monthly".
- The Ctrl-u (or some other hotkeyable key) cycles through all commanders who have forged an item Last turn.
- The Ctrl-b (or some other hotkeyable key) cycles through all commanders with a forge bonus.

- The ctrl-f1 to ctrl-f12 and shift-ctrl-1 to shift-ctrl-12 keys can be set to these up to 24 selected commanders; the f1-f12 and shift-f1 to shift-12 keys can then be used to as hotkeys to jump-select these. (One could to imagine that the current Overview, Lab, etc. buttons are set to 1-8, and that the Map Filter flags are set to shift-1-8 (personally, I use these map filters almost never once they are set, I rarely change my settings, so I wouldnt even need these hotkey, dont know about you. I find I need commanders more frequently than filters.)
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