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Veracitas is offline Veracitas
Warlord
Berkeley, California (or) Fairfax, Virginia
Jul 1999
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  Old Post 25-12-2001 01:24 Visit Veracitas's homepage!
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Playing Civ 3 on a laptop Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

I have just (actually, in the process of) installing civ3 on my Sony Vaio, and I'm wondering how i am going to move the units. I know the arrow keys don't function anymore, and I don't think home/end/page up/page down will work like it did in SMAC either (of course, my vaio has those keys lined up in a vertical line, so it was really inconvenient with SMAC too). So, then, how am I supposed to play? Has anyone found a convenient way of moving the units around?? (i'm thinking the "Go To" command might get really annoying after like the thirty-bajillionth time i use it...)

manhattan82 is offline manhattan82
Settler
new york city, of course...
Aug 2001
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I had installed Civ3 on my laptop as well. To move the units, just click the unit w/ your mouse and drag it to wherever you want to unit to go. It's actually efficient and helpful.

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Mar 1999
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If you got a USB or PS/2 Port plug in a mouse and drag the unit around. Or hold the mouse for a while on a free terain tile with the unit being selected and you get the movement cursor there.
Or of course go with the Touchpad

ata

Fayadi is offline Fayadi
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Oct 2001
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The arrow keys did work on my laptop .
Next time dont buy sony vaio!Buy IBM thinkpad!

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Dec 2001
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Suffering from ads?

user the letters, qwe,asd,zxc you may have to use shift or ctrl but they will work as the arrows. I am still looking for a way to change hot keys.

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