Build with a single hotkey

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Hello,

Does anyone know if it’s possible to build something by pressing a single hotkey?
Actually what I do to build a palisade wall, I press a key to say I want to build something then the key for palisade wall.
The palisade wall is a key use only for that and I hope to find a way to only have to select a vil and then press the key.
Does any one have an idea?

Also I have a question, how do you attack move? I press a key to say I want a patrol move and also a key (mouse bouton) to say where the unit have to go. Do you know if there is a way to press a key to activate attack move and send the unit to mouse location.

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As far as I know you need at least two button presses to build anything since you have to choose between economic or military buildings first. The hotkey for attack move should be R by default if I’m not mistaken. It should be the button in the upper right if you prefer to use the unit command pannel.

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You can edit your hotkeys to whatever you want
Build any building to a single hotkey

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how do you do that? I don’t find a way without pressing to key

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For attack move, you press R and then right click? or with R you succeed to don’t have to press the right click to select the destination?

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You do need to click after pressing R

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It’s possible if you edit your computer settings. Via a keyboard macro you can map a single key to [BUILDHOTKEY; PALISADEHOTKEY].
I haven’t actually done this myself. keyboard macro might or might not be the most correct term, but its enough to find results on google.

Some wining

My keyboard has keys which don’t send any kind of usable signal to the computer when I don’t run windows. Trying to fix that is why I looked into keyboard macros myself, but unfortunately they can’t help me fix my useless keys.

Yes macros are allowed

Gaming keyboards and Gaming mouses typically come with extra buttons for assigning macros to; I heard AOE pros often have a gaming mouse with 3 special buttons; I recall a streamer commenting on the palisade gate being coupled to such a button. I guess my point is: simple macros aren’t cheating.

Personally I’d just remap my hotkeys so to
– BUILDMILITARY = ‘S’
– BUILDPALISADE = ‘S’
if I wanted easier access to palisades. That way you can build a palisade after pressing ‘SS’.
(I quickwall with houses, which are under ‘AA’ in my current hotkey setup. I can’t even remember which building I’d currently build with ‘SS’.)

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I thought that macros were bad manners if they were used to change an action that require several imputs to only one?

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I actually do the same for house “AA” and for palissade is “A²” and it’s not very efficient. Before download a software for keyboard macro, I wanted to verify if I only miss understand some stuff.

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I think top players use that kind of software because when they create some buildinds, the menu to choose building (economy/war) are skip like if they do the two hotkeys in less than a frame.