Suggestion: More Hotkeys and/or full keyboard control

[spunky]

There have been several threads suggesting adding hotkeys for commonly accessed commands such as crew selection, "Jump" command, etc.

However, it would be great if I could play the game without ever using the mouse. For example, every room on the ship (both yours and the enemies) could have a hotkey. Then, to move a crew member into a room, you could hit their hotkey and then the hotkey for the appropriate room.

Or, to focus a weapon fire on the enemy, you hit the weapon hotkey and then the room on the enemy's ship (or your own ship for self-targeting).

I realize that for some weapons (like the halberd beam) this might be problematic.

It would be great if the entire game could be played without ever touching the mouse.

People who would enjoy this:
1. People who are used to having one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse for RTS games (Starcraft, etc.)
2. People who are used to full keyboard control, work in the terminal, Linux, etc.

By the way, I LOVE the game and the beta. I feel like I've gotten $25 worth of gametime out of it already. Keep up the good work!

[bschoner]

+1. I would definitely enjoy as much keyboard control as possible.

[x_dirtrobot]

+1

[cyrilthefish]

For vaguely similar reasons, i agree

I'd like a whole raft of keyboard shortcuts so i can map them to to my razer naga mouse (17-button MMO mouse) so i don't need to use the keyboard at all

[slack]

++

I'd be happy with hotkeys for drones and different hotkeys for actions honestly. I have the action hotkeys turned off because choosing the wrong thing was annoying, but at an enemyless jump I usually just want to tap 1 and bolt.

[ColOfNature]

I thought drones could be launched with 5 and 6?

I'd like to be able to select crew with the keyboard, e.g. Q, A, Z for the first three, then W, S, etc for additional crewmen.

[aepurniet]

I thought drones could be launched with 5 and 6?
I'd like to be able to select crew with the keyboard, e.g. Q, A, Z for the first three, then W, S, etc for additional crewmen.

This, i was thinking function keys, or 'QWERTY...'

[ImpactSmash]

+1

More hotkeys would be appreciated.

[GodFire]

A little late^^
but I would like to +1 this as well, especially for the cloak I would like a hotkey...

[Gorlom]

A little late^^
but I would like to +1 this as well, especially for the cloak I would like a hotkey...

There is one. it's called space. It pauses the game so that you can stealth using the onscreen UI.

No, seriously I understand hot keys for weapons, drones and even crew members, but why would you need a hotkey for stealt, teleport or door control? the pause button should do just fine?