Adding more keyboard control to the game

This suggestion may be more aimed at advanced/experienced players who have a lot to do to manage their cities. But basically, it would be great if we had more control on the game with the keyboard.

Some keyboard controls work already, like TAB when adjusting resources to send via trade. But, if I press ENTER it doesn't "validate" the transfer and send resources, what a shame...

It's not really important at the start of the game, but once you get many cities to manage, clicking clicking and clicking becomes tedious. Even more when you're playing with a trackpad.

It is probably not very time consuming to add those shortcuts in the game code, just adding another cases in a switch, reusing already existing functions.

Here is an example of user case scenario where keyboard controls would be very handy :

I am building the Wonder of the world, I need to transfer a LOT of resources. My transfer speed is limited by traders availability. What I would be able to do :

1. Press "next city" or "goto city" shortcut, which selects a city on the world map
2. Press "Open trade transfer" shortcut
3. A new menu opens "find your city", which basically performs an autocompletion. I can write the name of my city and it will select i, or select it from a list of predefined choices (owned cities, bookmarks). I can choose with arrow keys and validate with enter
   OR a more simple scenario would be to keep current behavior (have to select dts/src tile) and we can actually use the arrow keys to move on the world map, use a shortcut for "left click" to select a target/source tile and validate with enter
4. Then I can adjust my resources with TAB and press enter to send
5. Repeat for every city

Here's a list of keyboard shortcuts that could be implemented

World Map & Towns

• Go to world map/ enter currenty selected location (if owned city/quest location)
• Cycle through towns
• Go to Town x

In Towns :

• (Inside town) : go to next production building
• (production building selected) Add new (unit/upgrade), arrows or numkeys to select an update, enter to validate
• Upgrade selected building
• Cycle to next similar building
• Select and goto hero
• Call/remove army from hero flag

World Map

• Send resources, Reinforce, Attack
• Scout
• Actually maybe the possibility to move the cursor on world

Hmm.One thing i like in TT is that we DON'T need the arrows and commands.

One thing that I HATE about TT 2 is that I can't use any shortcut, and I have a bad trackpad.

Different people have different opinions. I was just saying that by having both keyboard control and mouse control we can make 100% people happy.

I think it's a great idea to have more keyboard shortcuts. It's just an option, you can use them if you like them but you don't need to do it.

By the way, thank you Startouf I didn't know about the tab shortcut when you send resources between your towns. You have save me a lot of time :)