how to smooth your game?

[Astat]

simple questions, i either couldnt find them in the manual or there are no positive answers.

1) i know how to queue several build orders in a city by multiple shift+clicking on buildings/units in the city menu. but apart from that, i get loads of "blah has finished riflemen. what shall be built now?" messages every single turn once i have a bunch of cities. it's so tedious, i have to issue new "build the damn riflemen!" orders all the time, and often enough, the AI recommends stupid units i dont like so i even have to scroll the list all the way down to the desired unit.
-> is there an option to build an infinite amount of a single unit until further notice?
2) what about rally points? can i order newly-built units from different cities to automatically move towards specified locations?

 

[Byrath]

1) Holding ALT when selecting which unit to build will set it to be built indefinitely.
2) Yes, there is a way to set rally points, but I do not remember what it is...
I think I saw it under 'Game Hints' in the Civilopedia.

 

[Astat]

oh lol.. i realize that shift, alt and strg are some kind of magic keys within civ4. it obviously doesnt hurt to try them on every possible left-click at least once just to see if something special would happen.

thx a lot!

 

[Thalassicus]

Rally points make all units created in a city go to a tile when they pop out. To set one, select the city bar on the map, and SHIFT + Right Click the tile you want to set as the rally point. To clear a rally point, SHIFT + click on the city itself and it'll go away.

Waypoints, a similar topic, order units to move to position X, then perform orders Y and Z, or whatever. To issue waypoints hold down SHIFT with a unit selected and give it the orders. So for example, you can select a worker, hold down shift, and then click a hill, click the Mine command, click Road, and then click somewhere else, and it'll add all those orders to the worker's command queue.