I have found at least 3 shortcuts that don't seem to work:
"[", "]" and "X". Does anyone else have problems with them?

By the way, here's a question to the StarDock Development Team... Why don't you use the "ESC" key to close all windows in the game, including the "Research Manager", "Planet Manager" and all others? Because, you know, closing all those windows with the mouse is quite annoying and time-consuming .

p.s. Thank you very much for the great game.

second this idea

Thirded!!!

Is there a hotkey to toggle trade route lines on and off?

The Hotkeys should be customizable - its kind of generic if a game as good as this is not fully customizable.

Also, I know it's not the proper place to post about this but everytime I load my game my small statistic screen on the Industry button goes back to 0 for every reace for only 1 turn. In other words my industry statistics show me holes for everytime I loaded the game. It's annoying....

All production stops the turn you load.... for you and the AI.... at the end of the game you will see it on the graphs, there will be lots of points plummeting then immediately soaring back up again.

I forget why this is exactly, but it's been there since release.


RE the first post. The thing I find most useful there is the numbers for the races. They relate to the custom civ numbers that you have modified..... when you go into your folder to delete one, it's not immediately apparent which is which - those numbers will tell you!

I agree... there should be a "continue along current path" button on the interface, represented by an arrow or something...

Amen to that brother   

I definitely agree. And with usage of the Escape on closing windows too. But I don't think it is necessary to customize keys. GC2 is no FPS.

That could be a real drag for big-game players in the event of a fingercheck. Unless it comes with an Undo, which I seriously doubt is plausible in the GC2 engine. Maybe there's room for a new button set, or perhaps a mouse+key function like a CTRL+click.

Is there any way how to quickly change the planet (or ship) sorting? There is a lot of fields one can use for sorting present and using arrows is very slow. I was not able to find any other way.

I am new to playing the Galactic Civ series,although I have played the "earth-based" series(CivII-CivIV) for years,I only recently decided to give outer space a try and purchased the Dread Lords.My question is this:compared to the "earth-bound" Civ games,the keyboard lay out and short cuts of Dread Lords seem counter-intuitive,ergonomically unfriendly,and rather functionally mediocre.Do the expansions to GalCiv have better keyboard short cut functionality or are they just as substandard as Dread Lords?Is there any website that has a diagram of the expansion's keyboard short cut layouts?As much as I like Dread Lords,the lack of a quality keyboard short cut layout makes the interface tedious.For example, the short cut"esc" which closes some open windows but not all,furthermore,"esc" may work for some one right-handed,but is awkward for left-handed players.Basically,the Dread Lords interface is such a step down in quality from the games I'm used to playing that it's a real dissapointment.If the keyboard lay outs and functionality are superior in Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor,I will quit playing Dread Lords and simply purchase the expansions.Otherwise,as much as I liked my introduction to the Galactic Civ series,I will return to planet earth and deal with simplier issues like Ghengis Khan or Napoleon.

For the most part the Keyboard shortcuts are the same with a few new ones for new features in the expansions(example: L for launch direction from a planet in DA). I had played for a few months before using them myself, but now I use them constantly. I'm just glad for the ones that are there, I have seen plenty of games with much less. There is a Keyboard Shortcut Card .pdf somewhere around, but Kryo would probably have to point to it since I can recall where it's link was posted.