Tip: Fast Forward End of Turn

[aiya]

There seems to be so many compaints about waiting a long time for EOT.

In case it wasn't posted by anyone else before,

* hold the [CTRL][SHIFT] keys to fast forward actions by your units and enemy units.

I found this out (accidently) last night while building railroads. I sent a bunch of workers to build a railroad connecting my capital to my distant cities with the [Cntrl]-[Shift]-"R" key. I left my fingers on those keys and by the AutoEnd Turn, everything just zoomed passed so quickly. I tried it again with the other key variations and finally realized this is a neat feature.

Happy Gaming!

 

[slothman]

So if you do that during an enemy turn it will go faster too? That is a useful feature.

 

[jimbo1]

actually, I think you only need to hold the shift key.

 

[shirleyrocks]

Wow...if that works, you win Tip 'o the Month

 

[9 ECAC Titles]

Will that rush the AI and make it stupider, or will it just rush the animation?

 

[Dragma]

For me it doesn't seem to work.

Tried both shift & ctrl-shift

 

[aiya]

I tried it again last night. It seems like the ctrl-shift only speeds up the animation. So if you have lots of "visible" units moving across or fighting on the screen, this is a definite time saver.

If it takes your computer a long time to crunch the non-visible actions of the computer, then this tip may not be that much more helpful.

 

[Astreos]

I tried it and discovered that it didn't make any difference because I changed the settings in preferences the day I bought the game. Go to preferences and you won't have to hold anything during the game.

It's still pretty slow in my opinion though...

 

[9 ECAC Titles]

So, if I disable all animations on the preferences dialog, it still animates... just faster.

Does that seem counter-intuitive to anybody else?

Wish list: "animate only if battle" or "display messages but not animations."