but that's a great reason to make the hotkeys configurable.
If they were able to configure it, they'd discover some hotkeys, I'm sure many people don't know about the "t" hotkey.
I guess they want to make it self-configurable. So actually they'd only need stuff to be able to be assigned to any key on the keyboard (well, not any, but for example A-Z and 0-9).
This is the main part of the thread I really like
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The hotkeys F1-F8 are nice to use, but the others I would be like select them yourself in an extra options menu, like
Move screen up [select key]
Move screen down [select key]
Move screen to left [select key]
Move screen to right [select key]
Show team names [select key]
Build road [select key]
Build vineyard [select key]
Build farmland [select key]
Build storehouse [select key]
...
Build Watchtower [select key]
Open/close chat [select key]
Place beacon [select key]
Open next message [select key]
Delete message [select key]
Open/close playerlistthingie [select key]
Pause [select key]
Move troops [select key]
...
Start storm attack [select key]
just to start with
One problem though, it can clash with keys assigned to buildings, though solved by not allowing numbers to be used as a key.