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I have not played the game in a while after completing the Sultan's ascend campaign and earning some Civ masteries so I decided to replay some of the campaigns recently. Yet I swear everything feels just wrong with the hotkeys. I am almost certain I did not have to press Q twice to place a house somewhere, the workers seem to ignore me after pressing a wrong button which means I have to both press Q again and then the button of the building I need, and I swear that the Market outright did not work. Like I pressed the button to buy some more wood but it literally did no change to my resources. Am I now in control of a medieval version Austro-Hungarian Empire or am I going senile? Also one more thing: https://preview.redd.it/xofnexsm7wch1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=93264bc73b46ef4c70526a23d4d22d1125834c2d HOW THE HECK IS THAT A BATTERING RAM?????