Mass unit control

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by mazar83, April 8, 2015.

  1. mazar83

    mazar83 Active Member

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    Has this been discussed before, I don't know. Honestly, I wish I had the time to know.

    Normally, I use three commands to select the units I need.

    ctrl+a = air forces on that planet
    ctrl+l = land forces on that planet
    ctrl+n = naval forces on that planet

    Is there a keyboard shortcut that includes all three of these? So that I can select all military units of a given planet? For example (A for All),

    ctrl+A = air, land, and naval on that planet
    ctrl+A = ctrl+(shift+a)

    Kind regards,
    Mark

    PS: By the way, the above commands used to apply to the entire system. Thank you for fixing it to apply to the selected planet!
  2. andrehsu

    andrehsu Active Member

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    Isnt there a select all combat unit option
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  3. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    Ctrl+Shift+F6 apparently. Settings -> keyboard is your friend. :)
  4. zihuatanejo

    zihuatanejo Well-Known Member

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    I wish I had started using these from the start! I only recently started incorporating them into my games, and they're so useful. Coupled with the HotBuild 2 mod's extra selection capabilities (e.g. I use ctrl+x for all air units, and then I can press t to select all fighters, or press r for all bombers), it makes for much quicker responses.
  5. iacondios

    iacondios Active Member

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    I also use the one that selects all units matching the current selection. Quite handy
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  6. Diaboy

    Diaboy Active Member

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    One thing I wish was possible was to shift-press numbers to be able to select multiples of certain groups. I don't imagine it would save that much time but I've found that handy in other RTS games.
  7. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    You can already do that in pa?!
  8. nateious

    nateious Active Member

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    I don't like selecting ALL combat units because then when I give a move order my fast units move too slow. Nothing like a bunch of bomb bots moving at the speed of an inferno.

    What I'd really like, and TA did this, is the ability to set a factory (or group of factories) to a control group and have all units that come out of that factory be put into that control group.
  9. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    hold ctrl while giving a move command to make all units move at max speed, out of formation.
  10. websterx01

    websterx01 Post Master General

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    Ctrl seems like a handy button!
  11. masterdigital

    masterdigital Uber Alumni

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    You can also double click the quick select buttons on the bottom left (single click selects all on screen, double click selects all on the planet). You can shift click to combine selection.
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  12. mazar83

    mazar83 Active Member

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    Thanks for all the info
  13. nateious

    nateious Active Member

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    This is the best thing ever.

    Well, I mean I'd still like ctrl group factories, but this is good enough for now.
  14. Diaboy

    Diaboy Active Member

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    You can?? I've never managed to get it to work... Does it need judicial application of the ctrl button?
  15. andrehsu

    andrehsu Active Member

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    I also need to master this magic key
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