Cycle through Units?

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Hi,

A few units questions:

1) Is there a way to cycle through all units to make sure you know where they are?

2) Bug? In the GC, playing england, everytime I send Cabot into the Atlantic the unit disappears from my screen - I know the sqaure he is in but I can't see him. He's not dead yet - because I jear him die a few minutes later.

Thanks

 

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Originally posted by chill888
Hi,

A few units questions:

1) Is there a way to cycle through all units to make sure you know where they are?

2) Bug? In the GC, playing england, everytime I send Cabot into the Atlantic the unit disappears from my screen - I know the sqaure he is in but I can't see him. He's not dead yet - because I jear him die a few minutes later.

Thanks

1.No

2.He wasnt a good swimmer - do you put him in a boat?

 

[BiB]

I think there is a cycling thingie though seeing I never use it wouldn't know what it is.

 

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Originally posted by BiB
I think there is a cycling thingie though seeing I never use it wouldn't know what it is.

Well wadda you know - there is!
Its the Page Up/Down keys.
Well blow me down.
Mind you I have never used them and probably still wont..

 

[BiB]

Yup, me neither. I accidentally found them while quickly trying to get to pause after quite a lot of pop ups

 

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Originally posted by Uglyduck


Well wadda you know - there is!
Its the Page Up/Down keys.
Well blow me down.
Mind you I have never used them and probably still wont..

U don't use these?? My gawd, they're a lifesaver for me! (well, at least for my fleets & armies) If I haven't played in a couple of days I tend to forget what I was doing & cycling thru the world helps to bring it all back... Those of you w/o short-term memory damage probably don't need such crutches tho'.

Wasn't Cabot an explorer anyway?? He'd have his own boat then wouldn't he? (there's that memory damage agyne ) Sounds a bit funny to me.

John J

 

[Agelastus]

Originally posted by chill888
2) Bug? In the GC, playing england, everytime I send Cabot into the Atlantic the unit disappears from my screen - I know the sqaure he is in but I can't see him. He's not dead yet - because I jear him die a few minutes later.

It's an occasional graphics bug that occurs most often in oceanic Pacific zones-if you had him selected you'd probably see the circle but not the ship. Normally just moving the view a little so that its' no longer directly centred on the relevant seazone will allow you to see the ship, although if you move to recentre it the image'll disappear again.

I must admit, I don't remember ever having this difficulty in the Atlantic though.

 

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Re: Re: Cycle through Units?

Originally posted by Agelastus


It's an occasional graphics bug that occurs most often in oceanic Pacific zones-if you had him selected you'd probably see the circle but not the ship. Normally just moving the view a little so that its' no longer directly centred on the relevant seazone will allow you to see the ship, although if you move to recentre it the image'll disappear again.

I must admit, I don't remember ever having this difficulty in the Atlantic though.

YAB. I've never run into this one at all. Graphics card/driver prob I guess.

John J

 

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Originally posted by Uglyduck


Well wadda you know - there is!
Its the Page Up/Down keys.

The alternative is to right-click on the world map, bottom left, and have it show all armies/navies/conquistadors etc., whichever ones you want to look at, with red dots. Then go and look at the red dots.

If you try to do this while an army/fleet is selected, right-click will direct the army/fleet to move there, which is seriously annoying if you forgot who was selected at the time so remember to select a random sea zone before doing this.

 

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Re: Re: Re: Cycle through Units?

Originally posted by randomjgj


YAB. I've never run into this one at all. Graphics card/driver prob I guess.

John J

Probably-must remember to check if I've still got the latest driver. That may be the root of chill888's particular version of the problem too.