Oh mamma mia

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This is a darn good game.I play my second GC now, this time as Brazil and its so good damn fun that you forget how tedious it is sometimes.
Its so much to do , that it have it all. Although i hardly understand how it works on all levels yet. I did one thing with Sardinia and succeded extremely well, tried the same thing with brazil, didnt work.
With regards to how much you can do in this game i think you will hardly ever tired of it and it has me sweating like HOI never did.

The bad thing is that is sometimes to much micromanagment (yes its true) for instance upgrading your railway system as Brazil is extremely tedious (isnt there a upgrade Railway in for a whole state? or something)



All in all we are some really lucky dudes who have the priviliges to play this game, I Just wanted to let it out

 

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"isnt there a upgrade Railway in for a whole state? or something"

I would like to know this too... Perhaps there is, but I haven´t had enough resources to make the command work.

 

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Find the shortkey section in the manual.

/Greven

 

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Originally posted by Greven
Find the shortkey section in the manual.

/Greven

I´m looking at it right now...but there is no upgrade railroad button whatsoever!

However...I read somewhere that "r" is the command for "expand rail". But I don´t know yet if it applies on state level. I will check that out.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Originally posted by Greven
Find the shortkey section in the manual.

/Greven

If my copy of the manual is representative, then the list of shortcuts is, well, "less than perfect" and with some glaring errors

Rafiki

 

[Jos Theelen]

There is a shortkey (r) for expanding railraod. There is also another shortkey for going to the next province in that state.
With both shortkeys you can quickly expand the railroads in one state (if you have enough resources).

 

[SupremeBanana]

Errm... Yes the shortcut key - section of the manual... Let me quote what my manual says:

Factory View Shortcut Keys:
a - Split a unit in two equal units
r - Split a unit in two equal units

Province View Shortcut Keys:
e - Split a unit in two equal units
e - Split a unit in two equal units
e - Split a unit in two equal units
e - Split a unit in two equal units

Umm.. Very informative

 

[Paradox Interactive]

wtf! This is what it says in the word document:

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[b]Shortcut Keys
General Shortcut Keys[/b]
Pause/Break	Pause the game / Restart a paused game.
Home	Centres the map on your capital
Ctrl +	Increase game speed (not available in multiplayer games)
Ctrl -	Decrease game speed (not available in multiplayer games)
-	Decrease map zoom level
+	Increase map zoom level
§	Open search box
F1	View current Standing
F2	Terrain map mode
F3	Political map mode
F4	Economic map mode
F5	Supply map mode
F6	Open the Ledger
F7	Open Country overview
F8	Open Territorial information view
F9	Open Military overview
F10	Opens the option menu
F11	Saves a screenshot as a bitmap on your hard drive.
F12	Open the console
TAB	Opens the chat function in multiplayer games.

[b]Unit Shortcut Keys[/b]
Ctrl + 1-9	Assign a quick key to a unit
1-9	Select a unit previously assigned a quick key. Pressing the key again will centre the map on the unit.
G	Merge selected units. Units must be located in the same province.
S	Split a unit in two equal units
Page Up / Page Down	Cycle through your units.
U	Unload units from a sea transport.

[b]Province View Shortcut Keys[/b]
e	Expand RGO
a	Add worker
r	Expand railroad
f	Expand fortress.

[b]Factory View Shortcut Keys[/b]
a	Add worker
r	Remove Worker


And then we added some between the manual was done and the release:

 <	Toggle message window
 END	Country overview
 
 [b]Shortcut Keys in the country overview.[/b]
 W	World Market
 P	Political Information
 B	Budget Overview
 T	Technological Research
 R	Diplomatic Actions (Relations)
 I	Population Overview
 S	Production Overview
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Sorry about that, we must've slipped up with the layout

 

[TheDarkside]

Originally posted by Patric
wtf! This is what it says in the word document:

§ Open search box

*Tries to find a '§' key on his keyboard*

Hmm... is that some whacky key only in Swedish keyboards ?

 

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Thanks!

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Originally posted by Patric
wtf! This is what it says in the word document:

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[b]Province View Shortcut Keys[/b]
e	Expand RGO
a	Add worker
r	Expand railroad
f	Expand fortress.

[b]Factory View Shortcut Keys[/b]
a	Add worker
r	Remove Worker
(...snip-snip....)[/color]

Sorry about that, we must've slipped up with the layout

Thanks Patric, the province and factory keys make much more sense now

Rafiki

 

[Chaingun]

I think the "§" key is the equivalent to the "~" key that exists on American keyboards. I'm not sure, but at least this is what I've noticed whilst playing Quake many years ago, and some more recent American made games.

 

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Originally posted by TheDarkside
*Tries to find a '§' key on his keyboard*

Hmm... is that some whacky key only in Swedish keyboards ?

In my keyboard (ITA version) you can find it by pressing SHIFT + ù = §.

I don't know if this can help you...

Saluti

 

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by Chaingun
I think the "§" key is the equivalent to the "~" key that exists on American keyboards. I'm not sure, but at least this is what I've noticed whilst playing Quake many years ago, and some more recent American made games.

yes, usually it is that key... in all my keyboards it is on the left of the "1" key.

 

[Paradox Interactive]

Yes, that is the location for our keyboards as well. The same key you open the console with in quake based games.


P

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

Assuming you have stockpile REALLY lots of materials, enough to build railroads all over the place, indiscriminately, and you just want to get it done in a hurry in a state, start by focusing on one province, and type.....

r,r,r,r,r,r,r (or as many times as you have provinces in the state)

That takes care of one state. ("," and "." cycle through provinces/states/factories/POPs when one of those types of items focused)

You can also do it over multiple states, I seem to remember, by using "0" to go from the province to the state view, then "," to go to the next state, and then hitting - erhmm. I cannot remember which key does this - a key to select a province in the state.

I usually just upgrade on a state by state basis when I am rich enough, though. Same with RGOs, if you just want to make sure there is enough room. They are so cheap to increase in size anyway, that it is more trouble than it is worth to seek out the RGOs where farmers/labourers go unemployed and only upgrade them.

 

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Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen
Assuming you have stockpile REALLY lots of materials, enough to build railroads all over the place, indiscriminately, and you just want to get it done in a hurry in a state, start by focusing on one province, and type.....

r,r,r,r,r,r,r (or as many times as you have provinces in the state)

That takes care of one state. ("," and "." cycle through provinces/states/factories/POPs when one of those types of items focused)

You can also do it over multiple states, I seem to remember, by using "0" to go from the province to the state view, then "," to go to the next state, and then hitting - erhmm. I cannot remember which key does this - a key to select a province in the state.

I usually just upgrade on a state by state basis when I am rich enough, though. Same with RGOs, if you just want to make sure there is enough room. They are so cheap to increase in size anyway, that it is more trouble than it is worth to seek out the RGOs where farmers/labourers go unemployed and only upgrade them.

Great stuff!!

 

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Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen
You can also do it over multiple states, I seem to remember, by using "0" to go from the province to the state view, then "," to go to the next state, and then hitting - erhmm. I cannot remember which key does this - a key to select a province in the state.

That would also be the "0" key

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by XieChengnuo
That would also be the "0" key

Right. It is the r,r,r,r,r0,0r,r,r,r,r0,0r,r,r,r,r &etc. for multiple states. Thanks for reminding me.

 

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Thanks for the hotkeys and the tips on upgrading railroads quicker