

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.

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).
