The Tone Rebellion/Controls

The Tone Rebellion uses a simple point-and-click interface. Almost everything in the game can be done with the mouse.

• Clicking on a building allows you to see the status of that building and adjust its controls.
• Clicking on a Tone node allows you to select a building to be built on that node.
• Clicking on a warrior or the warrior's home dojo allows you to give orders to that dojo's warriors (note that you cannot give orders to a warrior individually; all units from that dojo will attempt to follow your orders).
• Clicking on an image of a dojo in the building clipboard (between the realms display in the lower left and the information window in the bottom middle) allows you to select one of up to three pre-set dojos, as above.
• Clicking on the small colored buttons at the top of the building clipboard lets you choose between groups of three pre-sets. If a dojo is not in one of the pre-sets, the first time you click on a new dojo it will assign it to whichever pre-set is currently open if there is space.
• If a building is selected, right clicking on the image of the building in the building manager window will take you instantly to the building's location.
• Clicking on a mystic location gives a description of the location, which gives clues as to which artifacts can be placed there.
• Clicking on an empty area or your tribe's headquarters opens your main menu, which shows information on your tribe, allows you to control the resource settings of your headquarters, and gives access to menus dealing with artifacts, knowledge, and diplomacy with other tribes.
• Clicking on the controls in the lower left allows you to switch to the universe map, toggle panic mode, toggle the unit health bars, and open the labor manager. You may also open the labor manager
• Clicking on the top right corner of the screen opens the options menu, where you can pause, save or load games, return to the main menu, or adjust sound settings.

Hotkeys

The Tone Rebellion uses very few hotkeys.

•  m  opens the universe map.
•  i  toggles floater information bars.
•  1 ,  2 , and  3  switch the dojo display to the first, second, or third group of dojos.
• Hold  Shift  and click on objects for interface help. There is only limited help info in this game.
•  Ctrl  +  x  exits the game.
•  Ctrl  +  9  speeds up time in the game. Limited to two increments above normal.
•  Ctrl  +  8  slows down time in the game. Limited to two increments below normal.
•  Ctrl  +  4  activates windowed mode (native win95 display). This is likely the most stable.
•  Ctrl  +  1  activates fullscreen mode (Direct Draw mode 1 - high performance).
•  Ctrl  +  2  activates fullscreen mode (Direct Draw mode 2 - most compatible mode and default).
•  Ctrl  +  3  activates fullscreen mode (Direct Draw mode 3).
•  Enter  opens the chat function in multiplayer. Type your message and then hit  Enter  again to send.

Options Menu

The options menu

An options menu exists where you can load games save games, pause the game, exit the game, and set sound volume settings. To get to this menu, you must move the mouse to the extreme upper right corner of the screen and left-click. Clicking on an area outside the menu closes the menu.