Units Can Turn Into Gates

[vividlyplain]

I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

[richard]

I still dont understand why they decided to add two new civs into the game instead of focussing on first getting the things right which already existed in the game. Now the developers again complicated things. People just never seem to understand that it is better to have simple systems in which everything works as intended.

[macacoalbino]

Marketing

[onfiregun17]

I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

[vividlyplain]

I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

Would you want to share your hotkeys? I haven’t ported over my user con yet but I have a flare hotkey, now useless Agra hotkeys, and gates.

[onfiregun17]

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I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

Would you want to share your hotkeys? I haven’t ported over my user con yet but I have a flare hotkey, now useless Agra hotkeys, and gates.

I only have 4 custom ones at the moment since they added stuff for Agra, etc. and it seems you have 3 of them. The only one you're missing from me is the delete hotkey, so that doesn't give a prompt when deleting stuff. It's particularly useful when making pillarless walls (especially since pressing enter to confirm actions is bugged right now...) but you need to be careful as I've deleted my TC by accident a couple of times

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map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")

[vividlyplain]

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I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

Would you want to share your hotkeys? I haven’t ported over my user con yet but I have a flare hotkey, now useless Agra hotkeys, and gates.

I only have 4 custom ones at the moment since they added stuff for Agra, etc. and it seems you have 3 of them. The only one you're missing from me is the delete hotkey, so that doesn't give a prompt when deleting stuff. It's particularly useful when making pillarless walls (especially since pressing enter to confirm actions is bugged right now...) but you need to be careful as I've deleted my TC by accident a couple of times

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map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")

Haha I’ll pass thanks.

[onfiregun17]

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I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

Would you want to share your hotkeys? I haven’t ported over my user con yet but I have a flare hotkey, now useless Agra hotkeys, and gates.

I only have 4 custom ones at the moment since they added stuff for Agra, etc. and it seems you have 3 of them. The only one you're missing from me is the delete hotkey, so that doesn't give a prompt when deleting stuff. It's particularly useful when making pillarless walls (especially since pressing enter to confirm actions is bugged right now...) but you need to be careful as I've deleted my TC by accident a couple of times

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map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")

Haha I’ll pass thanks.

Actually just found one more that's interesting. When pressed it focuses the camera on the last mini-map flare, and when pressed again it goes to the second last, and so on and so forth. You can essentially cycle your camera through those flare points.

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map ("m", "game", "uiZoomToMinimapEvent()")

[vividlyplain]

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I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

Would you want to share your hotkeys? I haven’t ported over my user con yet but I have a flare hotkey, now useless Agra hotkeys, and gates.

I only have 4 custom ones at the moment since they added stuff for Agra, etc. and it seems you have 3 of them. The only one you're missing from me is the delete hotkey, so that doesn't give a prompt when deleting stuff. It's particularly useful when making pillarless walls (especially since pressing enter to confirm actions is bugged right now...) but you need to be careful as I've deleted my TC by accident a couple of times

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map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")

Haha I’ll pass thanks.

Actually just found one more that's interesting. When pressed it focuses the camera on the last mini-map flare, and when pressed again it goes to the second last, and so on and so forth. You can essentially cycle your camera through those flare points.

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map ("m", "game", "uiZoomToMinimapEvent()")

I have it too. Never use it tho lol.

[EAGLEMUT]

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I am not if it is a bug, i am more convinced it is a hack (probably not a useful one). Why did you try this @onfiregun17?

Maybe @onfiregun17 wanted a hotkey for gates?

I have this as a custom hotkey for gates on TAD. Never thought about using it on units though.

Yep, I just copied over my user.con file from TAD into DE as they didn't add all the hotkeys into the game that I wanted and that's how I discovered this. Either way I just tested this on TAD and wasn't able to turn random units into gates, so this is a DE specific issue it seems.

Would you want to share your hotkeys? I haven’t ported over my user con yet but I have a flare hotkey, now useless Agra hotkeys, and gates.

I only have 4 custom ones at the moment since they added stuff for Agra, etc. and it seems you have 3 of them. The only one you're missing from me is the delete hotkey, so that doesn't give a prompt when deleting stuff. It's particularly useful when making pillarless walls (especially since pressing enter to confirm actions is bugged right now...) but you need to be careful as I've deleted my TC by accident a couple of times

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map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")

Haha I’ll pass thanks.

Actually just found one more that's interesting. When pressed it focuses the camera on the last mini-map flare, and when pressed again it goes to the second last, and so on and so forth. You can essentially cycle your camera through those flare points.

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map ("m", "game", "uiZoomToMinimapEvent()")

You can just set that one up in the regular hotkey menu, it's called Find Last Notification.

[deleted_user]

This is one of my favorite thread titles on ESOC.

[Garja]

Where you are at it, care to help?
viewtopic.php?p=494605#p493616

[macacoalbino]

Edit2: a user.con file also doesn't even work for me, but user.cfg does work (not for this bug, was testing +nointrocinematics)

Unrelated to the topic, but did no intro work?

[vividlyplain]

Edit2: a user.con file also doesn't even work for me, but user.cfg does work (not for this bug, was testing +nointrocinematics)

Unrelated to the topic, but did no intro work?

It works. You can do it by creating a user.cfg file under C:\Users\yourname\Games\Age of Empires 3 DE\looongnumber\Startup

Create the file and type

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noIntroCinematic

[onfiregun17]

Where you are at it, care to help?
viewtopic.php?p=494605#p493616

I got this to work:

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map ("p", "game", "tis(\"ypShrineJapanese\")")

But you'll also probably need un-map the house hotkey in your game settings as that would still let the monks train shrines using the house hotkey. So after un-mapping those you can try adding the following:

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map ("q", "game", "tis(\"House\")")

map ("q", "game", "tis(\"Longhouse\")")

[macacoalbino]

@vividlyplain No way to do it in the launch options right? (that's me being lazy to go into game files xD)

[onfiregun17]

@vividlyplain No way to do it in the launch options right? (that's me being lazy to go into game files xD)

Currently there's no option for it in the game settings, so you'll need to do it as vividly describes. It literally takes 2 minutes to do though so not a big deal really.

[Garja]

Where you are at it, care to help?
viewtopic.php?p=494605#p493616

I got this to work:

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map ("p", "game", "tis(\"ypShrineJapanese\")")

But you'll also probably need un-map the house hotkey in your game settings as that would still let the monks train shrines using the house hotkey. So after un-mapping those you can try adding the following:

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map ("q", "game", "tis(\"House\")")

map ("q", "game", "tis(\"Longhouse\")")

Where to paste the code?

[Mitoe]

Edit2: a user.con file also doesn't even work for me, but user.cfg does work (not for this bug, was testing +nointrocinematics)

Unrelated to the topic, but did no intro work?

It worked. You can do it by following the steps Vividly described. No more mashing the escape key whenever the game is launching!

[EAGLEMUT]

@vividlyplain No way to do it in the launch options right? (that's me being lazy to go into game files xD)

Should work the same way, actually.

[vividlyplain]

@vividlyplain No way to do it in the launch options right? (that's me being lazy to go into game files xD)

Should work the same way, actually.

Are there launch options?

[vividlyplain]

Edit2: a user.con file also doesn't even work for me, but user.cfg does work (not for this bug, was testing +nointrocinematics)

Unrelated to the topic, but did no intro work?

It worked. You can do it by following the steps Vividly described. No more mashing the escape key whenever the game is launching!

I just follow what GODmut tells me and spread the gospel.

[macacoalbino]

@vividlyplain No way to do it in the launch options right? (that's me being lazy to go into game files xD)

Should work the same way, actually.

I tried it multiple different ways, with a plus before, a minus, no signal, capital letters and all small letters. I think only one of them worked but when I tried double checking, it didn't
I'll try again soon and let you guys know how it went xD

Are there launch options?

You can access it by opening steam client > Library. Right click Aoe3DE > Properties > launch options

[EAGLEMUT]

@vividlyplain No way to do it in the launch options right? (that's me being lazy to go into game files xD)

Should work the same way, actually.

I tried it multiple different ways, with a plus before, a minus, no signal, capital letters and all small letters. I think only one of them worked but when I tried double checking, it didn't
I'll try again soon and let you guys know how it went xD

Are there launch options?

You can access it by opening steam client > Library. Right click Aoe3DE > Properties > launch options

Works for me (plus enables option, minus disables option):

[macacoalbino]

You ARE a literal god aren't you?
I feel it's easier to teach newbs with this method than telling them to go into the game directory. At it was less scary for me when I first discovered this tool!