Common Hotkeys You Should Use

[ejones44]

as a default while playing rest your fingers on the qwerty keys for map control:

Hit Q to see the pretty terrain map mode
Hit W to see the most useful political map mode
Hit E to see trade map mode (Set up your trade strategy!)
Hit R to see diplomatic map mode
Hit T to see the religious situation (You should keep those missionaries working whenever you are ready to handle rebellions!)


With armies:
D to detach a siege contingent
S to split the army in half
G to combine all selected armies

Super Convenient Production:
V to build troops and ships
B to build province upgrades




These are the ones I find myself using every 5 seconds^

 

[calvinhobbeslik]

Space bar to pause and unpause

 

[EUTony]

I knew about the map ones, but not the army ones. Thanks!

 

[grekulf]

Not a hotkey, but useful nonetheless. You can click the small unit icons in the unit view to separate out all units of that type. For example selecting all transports ships or light ships from a merged fleet.

 

[pedroantonio]

Not a hotkey, but useful nonetheless. You can click the small unit icons in the unit view to separate out all units of that type. For example selecting all transports ships or light ships from a merged fleet.

Also the idea of right-clicking to separate just half of the units of that type is very convenient. I like that a lot.

 

[BobbyDylan]

Thanks for this, guys!

 

[aenariel]

Space bar to pause and unpause

"Pause/Break" also works for this. Just for the record. (I don't like using the space bar.)

 

[Tøp]

And Y for the diplomatic map. I find myself using that more than many of the others listed.

 

[calvinhobbeslik]

"Pause/Break" also works for this. Just for the record. (I don't like using the space bar.)

Why? It's closer and bigger than the other keys...

 

[ejones44]

Also the idea of right-clicking to separate just half of the units of that type is very convenient. I like that a lot.

Didn't know this one thanks

 

[TheChronoMaster]

Can I just suggest there be a 'select all visible land units' and 'select all visible sea units' button? It can get cumbersome to manually select, for instance, all the fleets dotting Greece and Anatolia, since if your selection box includes a land unit, it defaults to them.

 

[unmerged(783501)]

Are there hot keys to speed time up and down? Thanks in advance

 

[aenariel]

Why? It's closer and bigger than the other keys...

Old keyboards. Also, the space bar is the noisiest key.

I dunno really, I got used to it because one of my old keyboards had a busted space bar, it used to type two spaces in sequence instead of one sometimes. And since we're talking hotkeys here... well, not so many people know about Pause/Break, I guess.

 

[daquiri]

Are there hot keys to speed time up and down? Thanks in advance

+ and - on the numblock

 

[unmerged(783501)]

+ and - on the numblock

Awesome fast reply! THANKS

 

[SlyEcho]

Can I just suggest there be a 'select all visible land units' and 'select all visible sea units' button? It can get cumbersome to manually select, for instance, all the fleets dotting Greece and Anatolia, since if your selection box includes a land unit, it defaults to them.

First select one naval unit, then SHIFT-select all the other naval units. If you have one naval unit selected already it will not default to selecting land units.

 

[ejones44]

z,x,c,v

respectively (in order as they are listed on screen) to select all of a certain type of unit depending on if you have navy or army selected

Z for example is all your heavy ships or infantry .. X your light ships and cav


Hotkeys are well setup for the most party if you rest you fingers along "qwerty"

 

[Enewald]

§ for commands

Also, while viewing your government, you can also use qwerty to switch between different governing windows.
And L is ledger still.

F12 takes screenies, F11 should take maps or something like that. Maybe shift+F11 takes map of your own Empire, need to check that one...

 

[Sn3ipen]

Thanks to PDS for finally starting to include proper shortcuts in their games.

Now, we only need an easy way to tweak them.

 

[ariantes]

f for the province search window to find that one province in your empire that just had an event/mission.