Is there a way to change key bindings?

[Wacky Willy]

I'd like to change the pause button from "P" to "Space" to better accomodate my TBS-friendly playstyle.  Is there an ini file I can alter?

[RCIX]

That actually reminds me; can we get the Pause button pausing too? (Bet you didn't know keyboards had those!)

[dumpsterKEEPER]

I'd like to change the pause button from "P" to "Space" to better accomodate my TBS-friendly playstyle.  Is there an ini file I can alter?

There is not currently a way to change the game's key bindings. This has come up as a question before, and here is the current stance on that feature: http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,1121.msg7181.html#msg7181

The short summary: it's only of benefit to a subset of the player base and is a very low priority due to other time constraints. I'm not aware of any files that can be modified to alter them.

[RCIX]

One can use Autohotkey to remap keys if the app doesn't support it, use something like this:

#IfWinActive AI War
Space::
Send p
return
#IfWinActive

Save to an autohotkey script file (.ahk) and run it on startup (through a link in the Startup folder) and it will make the space bar pause the game when in AI war without affecting anything else.

[x4000]

Correct on the key bindings stuff.

As for the Pause button on the keyboard, there is a low-level windows interrupt that makes it only function 50% of the time in the game.  So, since it was frustrating to hit the button and half the time have it do nothing, I changed it to P (this was during alpha/beta).  A number of games don't use the Pause button on the keyboard, and I bet this is why...

[RCIX]

Well every time i used it i think it worked for me using a similar autohotkey script...

[x4000]

Well every time i used it i think it worked for me using a similar autohotkey script...

I'm not surprised.  It might have to do with some sort of strange override in Windows Forms, which is a bit higher-level than what you are doing.