Troy Severasse
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Posted - 2011.06.23 12:48:00 -
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Hello!
I am rather new to EVE, having played the-game-that-must-not-be-named for years before. Within a few days of the trial I cancelled my subscription with the aforenotmentioned game and subscribed to EVE. For my gaming preferences/interests/whatever, EVE is clearly the superior game, but it has one major drawback:
I am VERY used to doing stuff by pressing buttons. Whether it's editing a text document, sending an email, browsing the internet or playing a game, I prefer doing stuff with keyboard shortcuts, using the "mouse to select, keyboard to act". EVE is extremely hostile to that kind of usage, to the point where I, at several times, almost lost my ship due to shortcuts not working the way they would in almost any other software.
Apart from bugs like the "sticky keys" issue of Incursion, the two main by-desing-issue seem to be the chat window's narcissism and the way windows pass focus. a) Chat Window: In almost any game with a chat function, there is one button that activates chat. Unless that button is pressed, chat will never have focus. When you send a message, focus goes away and you have to press the button again. In EVE, once the chat has focus, it doesn't let go. This needs to change! Having to click in space to be able to issue commands that don't use Function keys or a modifier (Alt, Ctrl, etc.) is one extra click that is easily forgot and costs you valuable time during a fight. --Please give me an option to make chat only ever activate when I press the Space key--
b) Window Focus: There are several windows that should never, ever have focus, but get it frequently. Right-hand station menu, Overview, Drones Screen and the scrolling part of Chat (not the part where you enter text) are the ones that come to mind right now. Those windows are almost never closed by keyboard command, which, in my opinion is the only justification for windows focus. Even worse, though: at least two of these (Drones and Chat) disable the Space key, making even chatting impossible without first clicking somewhere else. Drones is probably the worst. Once I click around there to launch drones, I can no longer activate my modules (keys 1-8) or maneuver (keys qwe), unless I click into space first. --Please take focus away from windows that are pinned, as well as from station-right-hand menu--
Thank you for your time and attention.
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