Age of Empires II (2013)

Age of Empires II (2013)

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I can beat the enemy AI fairly consistently 1v1 on moderate difficulty, but I continuously pause the game so I have enough time to complete every action as quickly as possible (move cattle into the best spacing in the town center for harvest, spoon feeding food into the town center initially to keep it producing villagers 100% of the time, etc.). It would save so much time if you could engage an "if statement" in the town center. "If food =>50, automatically produce villager." I know there are hotkeys, but even with those, it seems like the game speed would be too fast to do all of the actions you need to do in multiplayer. How do MP players get all of the actions done at normal game speed?
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Originally posted by Getty:
How do MP players get all of the actions done at normal game speed?

By practicing hotkeys.
I have no idea about the default hotkeys HD Edition uses, but in Definitive, they are arranged in a grid-based system which makes them easy to follow.
If you e.g. wantt to build a barracks, you select a villager, press W (because the button for military buildings is the 2nd in the top row) and then Q (because the barracks button is the first in the top row).
Doing this over and over again you develop some kind of "automatism" that makes it easier to use hotkeys in the long term.
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