Hotkeys for Messages

by **PKUSH** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:10 pm

Has this idea been proposed before?

There are a handful of messages that most players use frequently:
- HELP Enemy
- Base here
- Hello
- Be Right Back
- Meet Me
- Whose Your Daddy
- etc.

This would eliminate the constant scrolling back and forth, up and down, & miss-click errors. Designate 4 function hotkeys (ex. F1-F4) for your favorite messages. One less thing to think about.

by **Dopatonin** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:25 pm

by **shermanfrombf** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:32 pm

has been suggested multiple times, and shot down every time too. with enough practice with the scrollwheel on your mouse youll get a feel for how hard to spin it for what messages you want according to sunworld

by **Dopatonin** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:35 pm

shermanfrombf wrote:has been suggested multiple times, and shot down every time too. with enough practice with the scrollwheel on your mouse youll get a feel for how hard to spin it for what messages you want according to sunworld

With that logic, there's no need for a hotkey for teleporting. With enough practice, you'll be able to quickly click open the map without the need for the hotkey...

by **shermanfrombf** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:01 pm

I personally like the idea. sunwolf is just super tight butthole about changes that everyone likes.

by SW » Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:26 pm

IMO the benefit is too small. With over 60 messages, nobody would set hotkeys for more than 5-10 of them, and these hotkeys would just allow for people to spam more easily. If the biggest downside would be bloating the game settings page with 60 extra hotkeys I'd still be against this idea.

Hotkeymania? Not everything needs a hotkey. The game will probably always require a mouse unless we also put hotkeys for selecting a tile on the screen (out of 256) to move your mouse to, then a hotkey for driving and grabbing.

If scrolling the list is a problem, maybe the solution will be to make the list bigger in a future version of the game. Once the game is in HTML5, the sky will be the limit regarding the user interface.

by **X-HayS-X** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:20 am

SW wrote:IMO the benefit is too small. With over 60 messages, nobody would set hotkeys for more than 5-10 of them, and these hotkeys would just allow for people to spam more easily. If the biggest downside would be bloating the game settings page with 60 extra hotkeys I'd still be against this idea.

Hotkeymania? Not everything needs a hotkey. The game will probably always require a mouse unless we also put hotkeys for selecting a tile on the screen (out of 256) to move your mouse to, then a hotkey for driving and grabbing.

If scrolling the list is a problem, maybe the solution will be to make the list bigger in a future version of the game. Once the game is in HTML5, the sky will be the limit regarding the user interface.

This response is just you being lazy. The idea of hot keys has already been tampered with. His stance and idea is one of more beneficial material versus cons.

by **silent** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:09 pm

Instead of hotkeys, you could use a feature that was previously available in x5 seeing as the teleport function was borrowed, what's it take to add one more (custom chat)? which pretty much simplifies this idea on both fronts.

But then again, spam, but who doesn't anyway? People spam Hardcore with or with out. Anyway, prepared to see this idea shot down too.

by **Cdub** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:43 pm

Idk I think I side with sw on this one. This is a minor change for a very small benefit. Sure everyone likes the idea but all it would be doing is eliminating an extremely minor inconvenience. I agree that I like it but I completely understand not changing it.