Idea for Item and skill use...

[RhapsodyAngel]

I'm one of those people who like to keep items and skills seperate on the little hotkey shortcut thing. You, F1-F4 for fighting, F5-F8 for Support, and F9 and F10 for Red potions and Blue potions. Although organizing it this way keeps it...organized and neat, it is very inconveniant. I play RagnarokOnline, and they have an implemented system called "Battle Mode(/bm)" Which allows them to, instead of having to push the F1-F10 keys, use the entire keyboard(A-Z) as shortcuts instead. The first row is Z, X, C, V, B, N, M, and ,. The second row is Q, W, E, R, T, Y, U, I, O and P. The third row is A, S, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, ;. This is a very conveniant way to set up skills, so you're not constantly moving your hand back and forth from one end of the keyboard to the next to use skills and items, and think it would be a great idea if SoS were to implement this system as well, or at least something very near it...

Also a second thing: You can use the F12 key to bring up the shortcut menu for skills/items, but it's simply a toggle command. You can't shuffle between your first, second and third shortcut menus. If you could make the F11 key shuffle to the next menu, and the F10 key shuffle to the previous it would be very helpfull as well.

These are just a couple ideas that I thought would help everybody enjoy the game more! Please consider them!


Edit: Another thing I want to add: While partied, can we please see the names of our party members under their sprite? It's kind of confusing trying to follow your party around while there are also plenty of other people around you as well who are not partied. Thanks!

[RedCross]

I think the idea is that you do move, so players don't just sit around collecting dust.

[RhapsodyAngel]

RedCross: Wait--What? Did you even read the post? What does that have to do with any of what I said?

[RhapsodyAngel]

Nobody has an opinion on this?

[poolplayermaster]

his reply pertained to him saying we have to back back and forth across the keyboard to do what we need to do

right now i only use the first four so it doesn't bother me but it would be nice to have the use of keys closer to the mouse or set your own and perhaps a keyboard movement would be nice like using hte arrow keys to move the constant clicking is sometimes a pain

[Serric]

I agree that a singhle row of F keys is awkward, especially as we obtain more skills. I say allow us to open multiple rows of hotkeys at once... then it's just point n click!

[slayernk]

I cant see point and clicking your spells while at the same time moving working. May work in some situations but I think its giving to much work to the mouse and not enough to a keyboard which is a endless amount of possible hotkeys for spells n such. (now that i think about it prolly wouldnt be so bad for melee class's but for magicians who have to kite mobs, mouse would be all over the screen. Making it even harder for people who have slower non optical mouses a harder time.)

[poolplayermaster]

yes an optical mouse does help quite a bit and esspecially a wireless mouse and keyboard as ihave i can turnt he keyboard to better suit me so that the f keys are at the bottom of my screen

[RhapsodyAngel]

I'm not convinced anybody's really understanding what I'm saying...What exactly do you people mean by saying you have to move your hand around with the mouse? You do have two hands, one's on the keyboard and the other's on the mouse. If you were to use one hand for the shortcut keys and the other for the mouse I don't see the problem....Unless you're missing an arm, of course...