Game Mechanics Tips and Tricks

[Unwise]

It might seem that I would create a thread on "tips and tricks" for selfless purposes: sharing my accumulated knowledge with the rabble.

Not so - I recently had it hammered home that there is much about running the game that I don't know about, and I figured that if I could trick the more generous/garrulous souls into revealing their secrets it would make me all the more powerful.

Seriously, though. I had a couple buddies over yesterday and we were discussing the results of our previous TCP/IP game. I used the (apparently undocumented) center-button scrolling trick to pan around the map, much to my friends’ amazement. Later, one of them mentioned that “As I was scrolling through the n-list…”, and none of the rest of use knew what the hell he was talking about.

So. What interesting shortcuts or interface tricks do you use most?

I’ll start:

Another thread alerted me to the center-mouse-button pan. By click-holding your center mouse button (or wheel), you can use it to pan around the map or battleground in the same way you would use the arrow keys.

Hitting the “n” key when in the map screen takes you to your “idle” commanders. I can’t overstate what a micro-management saver this is: it makes it much easier to find “lost” scouts or keep track of your search-mages operating deep in your back-field.