Allow keybinds for certain emoji/texts

[minitauros]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes I accidentally do something to someone, or I hit the wrong target. I want to tell someone "sorry". But I can't. And on top of that, I often find myself looking for 20 minutes in the chat menu at an appropriate message to send, which costs me gametime.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow players to set up to x (3?) key bindings for text, and up to y for emoji. That makes it easier to communicate with friend and fo without it costing you game time.

Additionally I would love for these emoji to be added:

• 😬 - Oops.
• 🤔 or 🧐 - What you are asking of me is questionable.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Allow players to bind x messages to the right click menu, that are shown underneath the circle of icons. That would prevent them from having to right click -> open chat/emoji -> find what you want. Instead it would be right click -> click shortcut message/emoji.

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[minitauros]

(copy/paste of my comment here)

Additionally, an emoji that would blink "Please give me troops, I am attacking" would be interesting. Sometimes players are spamming "SOS" and you don't really see why or what they are doing. Might be that all their attacking troops just got killed and they haven't started attacking again yet, so you don't know why they are spamming "SOS", just seems like they are sitting idle.

[Vectorial1024]

We could potentially generalize into some common messages, available for all users:

For self:

• "SOS"
• "Need money" (corresponds to "donate money", though the flow could be janky as we need to set a percentage in the window)
• "Need troops" (corresponds to "donate troops")

For allies:

• "Sorry" (as mentioned in this issue)

And possibly even more, to be custom-bound, as mentioned in this issue.

[minitauros]

Maybe this is too wild, but in multiplayer there could even be a "donate troops" and "donate money" button appearing over allies as you mouse hover over them. Maybe only when they are requesting troops/money. Maybe it makes donating TOO easy. Not sure. People are donating anyways. Some people don't understand how to donate. Maybe this would help both groups 🤷 .

[Vectorial1024]

We currently do have "donate troops"/"donate money" when opening the (allied) player radial menu.

There is no such thing as "too easy to donate". One (meta) strategy in team games is to donate idle troops from the backlines to the frontlines to increase tactical pressure. It's legit. Though, it seems the community is not aware of the tactical power of donating money; we could in theory funnel money to the "artillery guy" and let them assist attacks, or give money to struggling allied players.

[minitauros]

We currently do have "donate troops"/"donate money" when opening the (allied) player radial menu.

I know, and it's very useful! What I'm suggesting is something that would be even faster. When you hover over a player, without right clicking for the radial menu, display a "donate troops" and "donate gold" button.

Note that this is outside of my original request, which is about shortcuts for emoji and text 😁.