Game Mechanics Tips and Tricks

[Unwise]

It might seem that I would create a thread on "tips and tricks" for selfless purposes: sharing my accumulated knowledge with the rabble.

Not so - I recently had it hammered home that there is much about running the game that I don't know about, and I figured that if I could trick the more generous/garrulous souls into revealing their secrets it would make me all the more powerful.

Seriously, though. I had a couple buddies over yesterday and we were discussing the results of our previous TCP/IP game. I used the (apparently undocumented) center-button scrolling trick to pan around the map, much to my friends� amazement. Later, one of them mentioned that �As I was scrolling through the n-list��, and none of the rest of use knew what the hell he was talking about.

So. What interesting shortcuts or interface tricks do you use most?

I�ll start:

Another thread alerted me to the center-mouse-button pan. By click-holding your center mouse button (or wheel), you can use it to pan around the map or battleground in the same way you would use the arrow keys.

Hitting the �n� key when in the map screen takes you to your �idle� commanders. I can�t overstate what a micro-management saver this is: it makes it much easier to find �lost� scouts or keep track of your search-mages operating deep in your back-field.