How are your hotkeys set up?

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United States of America Squamiger
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How are your hotkeys set up?

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I’m trying to get better by developing more hotkeys. Everyone says to hotkey everything according to your own preferences, but I think it would just be nice to have a guide to base things on.

Right now I mainly use these to select buildings/units:
~ for explorer
1 for town center
2 for barracks/stable/warhut whichever I make first
3 for fire pit or consulate
4, 5, 6 for additional military buildings

And I use some of the standard hotkeys to make buildings: S for stable, b for barracks/warhut, d for dock, e for house, m for market, f for consulate.

What do you all use as hotkeys for selecting units? Training units? Things like combat modes and crack shots? What other things are important to hotkey?
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Re: How are your hotkeys set up?

Post by gomakchios »

T for towncenter
V for villagers
N for eject from TC
control groups for units/buildings of course. And that is it
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Re: How are your hotkeys set up?

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T - towncentre, y-eject vills, R-train vills, G-Dock, H-home city, F-find explorer. I use for quick building, q for house, w for market, e for wall, a for rax and z for stable. I use s forfind all barracks, and x for find all stables. I mix this with s and x to train skirm/goon with other nearby letters for other units. (i.e a for xbox and z for hnd cav). I would save control groups for troop management. The letter i use represent a pattern or area on the keyboard and not related to building like your s for stable but b for barracks. Also i have a select all selected unit on my mouse but i have accidently moved all my vills so many times
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Re: How are your hotkeys set up?

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I would start from the base up but only work in a few hotkeys gradually
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Re: How are your hotkeys set up?

Post by Squamiger »

Oh wow, I had no idea there was a “find all barracks” hotkey possible. Awesome! This will make late game so much easier when you have like 6 raxes

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