31 Oct 2011 17:59
Set speed using mouse wheel
Has anyone tried mapping speed to scrolling the mousewheel up and down? (I googled and F3'ed the FOCS but didn't see it.) I noticed mousewheel now zooms in on Netrek XP -- cool (useless maybe but whatever :))
As long as one's own desired speed was highly visible, I would think this would increase usability, and free up both fingers during dogfighting as well as simplify the keymap by 4-13 keys.
Would people consider this borgish? I personally think it would/could make playing a tiny bit easier but in a way I am for. (To me, keys for turning the ship is too borgish for my comfort at the moment but it's still in my mind.)
I know some people have clever keymaps with fighting/cruising/maxwarp speeds mapped out convenient locations, but I've never gotten around to doing that and instead plopped all my keys right under 4-7 in order to have access to speeds, but I think this might be silly (partial ulterior motive: I am rethinking a keymap with better access to shift/alt/ctrl keys, as well as keeping one of the player's hand on a home row typing position.) I also use keys to fire weapons, so I have spare fingers on my mouse.
Jared
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> Would people consider this borgish? I personally think it would/could make
> playing a tiny bit easier but in a way I am for. (To me, keys for turning
> the ship is too borgish for my comfort at the moment but it's still in my
> mind.)
That was a comon understanding yes, as far as I remember it can be turned off
by the server because of that.
> I know some people have clever keymaps with fighting/cruising/maxwarp speeds
> mapped out convenient locations, but I've never gotten around to doing that
> and instead plopped all my keys right under 4-7 in order to have access to
> speeds, but I think this might be silly (partial ulterior motive: I am
> rethinking a keymap with better access to shift/alt/ctrl keys, as well as
> keeping one of the player's hand on a home row typing position.) I also
> use keys to fire weapons, so I have spare fingers on my mouse.
Kemaps are usually one of the major key of successful play, so you definitivly
should think about this topic careful.
Oh yes I have the macros overlayed onto the mouse as well.
# Place all important macros and distess calls onto the mouse.
# Requires 007's extended mouse button map.
# Mouse Buttons:
# Normal: pop control pickup
# Shift: bombing escorting ogging
# CNTRL: defend me ack player ogg
# CTL-Shift: distress takeing carring
dist.^A.pop: %T%c->%O %l%?%n>-1%{ <at> %n%}!
dist.bomb: %T%c: %?%n>4%{bomb %l <at> %n%!BOMB%}
dist.^B.save_planet: %T%c->%O Emergency at %L!!!!
dist.space_control: %T%c: Danger Help Control at %l
dist.^C.pickup: WATCH %u: %t%p++ <at> %l
dist.^D.bombing: %T%c: Bombing %l <at> %n
dist.^E.escorting: %T%c: Escorting %p
dist.^F.ogging: %T%c: Ogging %p
mac.^G.%u: defend %c
mac.^H.%u: ACK
dist.^I.ogg: OGG %u (%t%p) near >%l<
dist.^J.help: %i (%S %T%c <at> %b): %?%S=SB%{SB%!%} Help! %d%% dam, %s%% shd,
%f%% fuel %E%{ETEMPED!!! %}%W%{WTEMPED!!! %}%?%a>0%{%a armies!!%!%}
dist.^K.taking: %i (%S %T%c <at> %b): need ESCORT going to
>%l%?%n>0%{ <at> %n%}<%?%a>0%{, carrying %a armies!%}
dist.^L.carrying: %i (%S %T%c <at> %b) has %a armies on board!
Have fun,
Kurt (007)
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