How to juggle the building queue?

[LordRahl]

Can anyone provide a comprehensive list of shortcuts, on how to move things around in your building queue. I need it because too many times I have canceled something I was building, instead of moving it up/down...

 

[DaveMcW]

Ctrl+Click: Add to top
Shift+Click: Add to bottom
Alt+Click: Keep building the same unit

 

[Elkad]

You can combine Alt with ctrl/shift as well.

If you cancel something, re-adding it won't cost you any shields, the queue remembers you had them invested when you replace it. Since you can only add at the beginning or end, cancelling is necessary when juggling a queue of 3 or more items.

 

[OTAKUjbski]

Are you playing vanilla?

I remember having problems with cancelling and juggling before upgrading to Warlords -- at which point the queue is a lot smarter at adding to the top of the list w/o removing everything beneath it.

 

[LordRahl]

You can combine Alt with ctrl/shift as well.

If you cancel something, re-adding it won't cost you any shields, the queue remembers you had them invested when you replace it. Since you can only add at the beginning or end, cancelling is necessary when juggling a queue of 3 or more items.

Thanks for that bit of info - very useful indeed.

 

[Michelangelo]

Look at the file in my sig. A lot of shortcuts (if not all) are listed in it. However I didn't realize you could combine ALT with SHIFT or CTRL. Something learned again

 

[obsolete]

I had problems with the vanilla as well, it just wouldn't use all the que short-cuts like people claimed. The warlords DVD seems to have it working though, at least my version.

It should be noted you can't do these shortcuts when prompted what to build. You MUST click on city first, then from the bottom of the HUD use the shortcuts. I'm not sure why firaxis didn't include both systems, but it's an annoying thing.