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Alacrity Fitzhoughs
Shadowfire Enterprises Rura-Penthe
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Posted - 2011.09.30 16:35:00 -
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I would love to see a basic command prompt added to the game. I understand that the ability to script might be an issue but it would be super cool for our advanced pilots to have the ability to do most ship operations using command line forms. The commands could be shortened to things like t for target (or tab completion could be used) For instance:
t Pithi - might target that unit
command for firing, warping and other functions could be added allow almost entirely keyboard driven control of the game.
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Obsidiana
White-Noise
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Posted - 2011.09.30 17:47:00 -
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Count me in. I'm all for it, but most will be against for two reasons:
1) Fear of script exploits (I'm sure someone else will give you an earful)
2) Most people do not like a CLI. It is sad for those of use who do.
That said, it does go against the plot of the game. In the beta of Eve, the circular ship control interface was in the middle of the screen. The idea was (and is) that we were looking at the ship through camera drone and controlling it with pure thought. Hence the visual interface, though the controls where moved to the bottom of the screen for practicality.
And yes, there is a little camera drone flying around you when you walk in station. >:}
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Lucy Alfrir
The Lost Shadows Circle of the Shadows
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Posted - 2011.09.30 17:53:00 -
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I think in CLI not GUI, hence your argument about it being against the plot is invalid
overview > grep WarTarget | sort --distance | t && warp_scram
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Alacrity Fitzhoughs
Shadowfire Enterprises Rura-Penthe
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Posted - 2011.09.30 18:05:00 -
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Yes, I was expecting that scripting would be a worry but you could make it so that command would not queue which should reduce some of those concerns. Also the command prompt could just be another possible window of the billions we have available now so that it is strictly optional. I have been desperately learning the keyboard commands but on my Mac at least they seem to depend on the focus and quite often they do not launch. I would prefer to have a place where i know that I can execute my command using the keyboard reliably. :-)
Pretty much any improvements to the ability to use the keyboard would be awesome.
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GizzyBoy
Old Spice Syndicate Sailors of the Sacred Spice
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Posted - 2011.10.01 01:05:00 -
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terrible idea,
buy a scriptable kb instead.. |
Aidan Patrick
Aldebaran Foundation Tauri Federation
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Posted - 2011.10.01 07:48:00 -
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As cool as I think this would be to impliment... I have to give a resounding "hell no".
Point in case; it's already easy enough for botters to automate gameplay. Giving them the ability to having a program simply type for them instead of also worrying about mouse clicks?
...... No.... Just.. omg.. no...
My god I can't get the images of swarms of bots out of my head.... oh god... pod me now. |
Pytria Le'Danness
Placid Reborn
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Posted - 2011.10.01 08:56:00 -
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There already is command support in the chat clients. Devs can use it to transport themselves or players, they can heal or damage ships and probably a ton of other things. That players do not have access to commands probably is intended - I'd guess the scripting issue might be a big problem, especially when you consider missions where the spawns are terribly predictable. |
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