Small default control change suggestion
Posted: 01 Aug 2009, 21:42
Hi, I was playing earlier today (wow!) and I several times found myself queuing up lots of buildings and needing to move the camera. Since I was using windowed mode at the time, it didn't feel natural to move to just the border of the window. ANYWAY, the point is, holding down shift I hit the middle mouse button hoping to put my camera in free movement, but obviously instead I wound up in a different camera mode altogether.
IMHO I don't think there's a person alive that feels the need to switch camera angle on a frequent basis, but I think the situation above happens often. Sure, I could've just zoomed out, but then I wouldn't be able to select locations as accurately.
So what I propose is that shift + middle mouse react the same way middle mouse without shift does, and the button to switch camera mode be changed to something less easy to do by mistake.
I know if I was a newbie (well, I play like one, but that's a different story), I would be very frustrated and confused if my view suddenly switched to a different mode like that. A newbie probably wouldn't even realize that he/she'd done wrong and might get stuck in FPS camera mode for the rest of the game or something.
Yes, I know that we can define our own keys, but since the issue would affect newbies primarily, and newbies won't know about custom keysets, my suggestion seems prudent.
I don't know what would be a better combination. Alt+F3 or Alt+F5 are what I'd pick, but I'm an evil bastard so someone else can probably come up with something better.
IMHO I don't think there's a person alive that feels the need to switch camera angle on a frequent basis, but I think the situation above happens often. Sure, I could've just zoomed out, but then I wouldn't be able to select locations as accurately.
So what I propose is that shift + middle mouse react the same way middle mouse without shift does, and the button to switch camera mode be changed to something less easy to do by mistake.
I know if I was a newbie (well, I play like one, but that's a different story), I would be very frustrated and confused if my view suddenly switched to a different mode like that. A newbie probably wouldn't even realize that he/she'd done wrong and might get stuck in FPS camera mode for the rest of the game or something.
Yes, I know that we can define our own keys, but since the issue would affect newbies primarily, and newbies won't know about custom keysets, my suggestion seems prudent.
I don't know what would be a better combination. Alt+F3 or Alt+F5 are what I'd pick, but I'm an evil bastard so someone else can probably come up with something better.