Follow this guide closely to avoid such softlocks.įinally before diving into things I'd like to say that, obviously, no guide is perfect. Also from my experience some of the mission scripts can be rather unstable when playing quickly, that is, if you do things in the wrong order it may happen that story missions do not appear. This way the game's progression-including resources, population, etc.-is as close as possible to what it will be once you learned and mastered the route. This is a small but noteworthy optimization as it involves no risk.įor the sake of practicing execution or memorizing a route I advise you to (use this guide and) play on FF but pause (P) whenever necessary. This is also a good way to quickly revert back from permanent FF to normal speedīe aware that some of these hotkeys can be buffered: for example if you have a peasant's house selected and start you holding U to upgrade before the ascension requirement's are met, as soon as this changes these peasants will upgrade to citizens. Num+: Speeds up the game, but not permanently.U: Upgrade a building (e.g., peasants to citizens or a small market building to a medium-sized one).F11: Open extra menu which includes the permanent fast forward button.You can also focus on any of your ships with TAB Q: Change focus between ships which are not on trading routes.K: Change between your island's warehouses.This is why the FF-categories have a rather heavy focus on execution: iIn order to go fast you should be familiar with the most useful hotkeys (and their default bindings):

As these notes focus on the fast forward categories it is assumed that at the start of every chapter you permanently fast forward (done by pressing F11 and then the ⏩ key).

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