Keyboard Shortcuts??

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Can anyone explain why the keyboard shortcuts, as per the manual, are so flaky?? Supposedly the Tab key goes to the next ship - but it doesn't. Sometimes it'll go to _one_ ship, but pressing Tab again does nothing. But most of the time, Tab does nada, nothing, zip, which is irritating as hades.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I looks like that if you have assigned a task for you ship like guard or auto explore the tab won't select that ship... is this really ment to work that way ?

What I would like to know is how to close the windows like "Colony management" or "Start Port" using keyboard ? In manual Enter and Esc have description "Close current window" but the first one only ends turn and the second one always brings up the options window, a bug perhaps ?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

No task assigned to the ships - Tab simply won't go to the next ship, which is abominably stupid. And yeah, the Enter and Esc keys are screwed also ( pretty brain dead design, to make one key nominally do two immensely different things - close a window to go to another part of the interface, or end the turn regardless of whether or not you're done ).
As it is, there's no keyboard shortcut to close a window, and given how many stackings of windows there is, it's darn irritating and clumsy.


Looks like the user interface is going to kill my desire to play the game.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Looks like the user interface is going to kill my desire to play the game.


Sad to say but it is the same thing here ... let's hope that the next patch will do some major fixing with these shortcuts. There are lots of great things in this game but adding new fancy graphics should be in second priority when it comes to these very basic controls of gameplay.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

What I would like to know is how to close the windows like "Colony management" or "Start Port" using keyboard ? In manual Enter and Esc have description "Close current window" but the first one only ends turn and the second one always brings up the options window, a bug perhaps ?



And yeah, the Enter and Esc keys are screwed also ( pretty brain dead design, to make one key nominally do two immensely different things - close a window to go to another part of the interface, or end the turn regardless of whether or not you're done ).
As it is, there's no keyboard shortcut to close a window, and given how many stackings of windows there is, it's darn irritating and clumsy.

Looks like the user interface is going to kill my desire to play the game.


So these posts were over a year ago, did this problem ever get addressed?

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I use escape to close open windows, but I don't know about tab.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I use escape to close open windows, but I don't know about tab.


All open windows? Some windows, such as the ship/planet list and finance management screen, do seem to close when I press "ESC", but not the colony management, research, or civilization manager screens. Is there some patch I'm missing? I'm playing Dark Avatar that came with the Gold Edition and I visited Stardock Central a day or two ago and downloaded the most recent patch available for Dark Avatar...so is it just me or does the "ESC" button NOT close the colony management, research, and civilization manager screens and bring up the main screen?