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how to remove the delete confirmation message box

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Hi everybody,

I want to delete this box who is useless. Is there a way to do it ?
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Re: how to remove the delete confirmation message box

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you just learn to hit enter very quick except sometimes that doesn't work and just closes the dialog and you might not even notice that it didn't delete so you try a couple of times until you realize what's happening and by this point your macro is already fucked up but nevertheless you use your mouse to click it
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1) Go the the file path: C:\Users\%username%\Games\Age of Empires 3 DE\<Game ID>\Startup

2) Create file "user.con"

3) Edit user.con with text editor (notepad works fine) and add the code:

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map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")
That's all you need to do. You just need to be careful as it makes it very easy to delete your TC at 37 seconds into the game, or so I've heard...
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Re: how to remove the delete confirmation message box

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onfiregun17 wrote:1) Go the the file path: C:\Users\%username%\Games\Age of Empires 3 DE\<Game ID>\Startup

2) Create file "user.con"

3) Edit user.con with text editor (notepad works fine) and add the code:

Code: Select all

map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")
That's all you need to do. You just need to be careful as it makes it very easy to delete your TC at 37 seconds into the game, or so I've heard...
it works well mate. thank you ;)
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Re: how to remove the delete confirmation message box

Post by dutchdude117 »

Wait when did we figure this out ? I wish I knew this before. I must try it tho
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Post by onfiregun17 »

dutchdude117 wrote:Wait when did we figure this out ? I wish I knew this before. I must try it tho
A quick Google search lead to this thread on RTS Sanctuary from 2005, so at least since then. However since AOE3 uses the same engine as AOM, I would assume that this actually predates AOE3 entirely :P
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So we were fixing aoe 3 problems even before it existed
Fine line to something great is a strange change.

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