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Today Krom added assignable hot keys for selecting units/house similar to other RTS games. You click on a house/unit, press CTRL+5 and then whenever you press 5 that unit/house becomes selected. If you press it again (i.e. when it is already selected) your screen is centered on it.

However there is a problem. The keys 1..4 are currently used for the menus on the left. (1 is build, 3 stats, etc.) Both Krom and I would like to move these shortcuts somewhere else so we can let players use the full range of numbers from 0 to 9. (or from 1 to 0 depending on how you see it) We think QWER would be a good place for them, since those keys are unused and just below the old ones.

What do people think about this change? Any objections/suggestions?

Feel free to use this topic to write about other shortcuts/hot keys you're interested in

That are some hot keys sir.

I think this is just great!
Micro is realy hard in Kam so this will make it a lot easier.
And yes, the shortcuts for building, stats, would be better elsewhere, you realy need 9 hot keys,
but not QWER. A lot of players, including myself, have AZERTY, so that would be too messy.. Even if you don't realy need them.
Maybe like in other games? B for building, S for stats. It makes sence.

Hmm, maybe put the menu shortcuts to F1-F4, that would fit anyway.

F1-F4 sounds good, otherwise you could use ERTY.

Oops, I forgot that some people don't have QWERTY keyboards Thanks for pointing that out mr Bo.
I like Siegfried's idea, and F1-F4 has the advantage that it will still work with the chat window open, where as 1-4 or ERTY doesn't work because they type into the chat window. I personally find this annoying because I often leave the chat window open, and then I try to use 1 to open the build menu and I just end up typing 1s in the chat

Any disadvantages to F1-F4?

Well, some computers use those keys for certsin functions, but i guess those can be turned off. Like for brightness and stuff. I think its fine really.

I guess we can map it to F1-F4 )

awsome, have not thought about it that much, but i do indeed use it a lot in other rts

Right, I moved them to F1-F4. This is also kind of nice because Esc is right next to them, which is used to get out of the menu items. Group shortcuts now use all the numbers from 0 to 9.
Thanks for writing your opinion guys, it's really helpful to us