It’s a common convention in games that support a pause feature, as well as in media players, for the space key to toggle pause/unpause. I continuously find myself hitting the space key, then 5-30 seconds later realizing that the game is still running, or still paused. Currently it appears that cli…

Yeah, I agree. We could have hotkeys for the speed feature. Currently the space bar is used to pan the terrain together with the mouse. (As alternative to this, the wasd keys are used) I think someone mentioned some time ago that they should make the hotkeys configurable…

Simple enough :slight_smile: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BynmPA83eY4PM1dMYnlic2hCbE0/view?usp=sharing I know you didn’t ask but this will do it for you, it’s a mod, put it right into you mods folder :slight_smile:

[image] FerretBandit: Maybe pressing the letter P? I believe that is the place menu hotkey

user mappable, mapped to spacebar or even the pause key would be great

[image] Relyss: Currently the space bar is used to pan the terrain together with the mouse Now that you mention it I remember this from the tutorial. I recall thinking it was a very strange choice to make an instantaneous key act like a modifier key. The usual convention in games like this is…

Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever paused the game so I don’t really see much use in this. I do agree with mapping spacebar to something more useful though. User-defined controls would definitely be best, especially since players will have different goals with their games - e.g. spacebar for commandi…

I agree that spacebar would be an ideal pause key… having an option to remap keys would be preferable though! :smiley:

Is Ctrl a hotkey? It could be that…

Spacebar to pause

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micheal_handy76_mh January 25, 2015, 11:05am 3

Yeah it’s old. Here it is. Keyboard Hotkeys

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Spacebar to pause

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