Keyboard mode?
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:54 pm
I just wish I could do EVERYTHING on my keyboard. I love to take this game with me on a plane trip. The way your hand is always on the pause button ready to give commands and lose no reflex time due to the lack of a mouse means I don't really need a mouse for this game, but there are so many necessary commands that are just plain uncomfortable to do with the stupid slidey pad. Not to mention right click is extremely annoying to command. I mean there's more then enough keys for it.
Each room of your ship and the enemy ship could have an assigned key. The keys for each room could be displayed through the options menu and shown inside the corner of each room.
Selecting each crew member could be done with the F keys.
I would recommend putting FTL jump at the Enter key.
Now the tough part. Powering up and down individual systems of your ship. I think it should be a 2 part system. One for selecting the system, and one to decide to power the system up and down. The selected systems would be from left to right just under the number keys (QWERTYUIOP, other keys can be used). You hold shift to distinguish between selecting rooms or systems (for rooms, just hit the key. For systems, hold shift then hit the key). When you have a system selected, * [ * powers down the system and * ] * powers up the system.
The star chart's beacons would all have displayed keys assigned to them as well.
I would just love to see this idea implemented, or if possible, modded into the game. Slidey mouse pad is no bueno.
Each room of your ship and the enemy ship could have an assigned key. The keys for each room could be displayed through the options menu and shown inside the corner of each room.
Selecting each crew member could be done with the F keys.
I would recommend putting FTL jump at the Enter key.
Now the tough part. Powering up and down individual systems of your ship. I think it should be a 2 part system. One for selecting the system, and one to decide to power the system up and down. The selected systems would be from left to right just under the number keys (QWERTYUIOP, other keys can be used). You hold shift to distinguish between selecting rooms or systems (for rooms, just hit the key. For systems, hold shift then hit the key). When you have a system selected, * [ * powers down the system and * ] * powers up the system.
The star chart's beacons would all have displayed keys assigned to them as well.
I would just love to see this idea implemented, or if possible, modded into the game. Slidey mouse pad is no bueno.