Rant: Game interface design
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ArchonWing Wrote:M builds a marine while c builds a medic. Yes they do begin with the same letter, but that's still annoying. I don't know many people that can associate the letter c with medic immediately

It's because Medic is a BroodWar only unit. The marine was in original starcraft and was thus given M. I think C is a totally OK hotkey for medic - since e, d and I would have been just as illogical. How do YOU think they should solve the marine/medic hotkey conflict?:)

I really like the interface for almost all blizzard games (Not warcraft 1, though :) ). Easy to learn, mostly intinuitive and just nice ;).

Pete, if you select a (unitproducing) building in Warcraft 3, rightclick is "gather" point. So Blizzard learned their lesson from starcraft. Should make you happy :P

I wish there was more unit grouping hotkeys though. I go through 9 hotkeys in a second, although it can be considered a intentional limitation, since you could macro in a siiiick way if you had like 18 unit groupings. Yumm, macro...

Also, I'm ruined by playing Quake with my brother. He used inverted mouse so now I do it too. Can't play with "normal" mouse. Bah.

When I play *most* games (very few exceptions) I sit with my (left) index, long and ring finger on AWD, pinky on shift and thumb on space. The best FPS / RTS / Diablo hand position, IMO :)
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Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-24-2003, 04:26 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Obi2Kenobi - 05-24-2003, 04:35 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Count Duckula - 05-24-2003, 04:37 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Nystul - 05-24-2003, 05:17 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by channel1 - 05-24-2003, 05:42 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Whiggles - 05-24-2003, 06:04 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kevin - 05-24-2003, 06:12 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Xiuhcoatl - 05-24-2003, 08:24 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-24-2003, 11:33 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 12:03 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-25-2003, 12:06 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by WarBlade - 05-25-2003, 12:15 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Isolde - 05-25-2003, 01:56 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kevin - 05-25-2003, 02:26 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 05:08 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 05:11 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by WarBlade - 05-25-2003, 05:51 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by ithil - 05-25-2003, 05:55 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Vandiablo - 05-25-2003, 05:57 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Whiggles - 05-25-2003, 10:18 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by monkeycid - 05-25-2003, 02:27 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 05:33 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kasreyn - 05-25-2003, 06:08 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-25-2003, 06:11 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-25-2003, 06:23 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Copadope - 05-25-2003, 11:38 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by loonygloss - 05-26-2003, 12:02 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-26-2003, 02:54 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Copadope - 05-26-2003, 05:23 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Xiuhcoatl - 05-26-2003, 07:47 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kevin - 05-26-2003, 02:18 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Walkiry - 05-26-2003, 03:57 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-26-2003, 04:37 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by goldfish - 05-26-2003, 04:41 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by SwissMercenary - 05-26-2003, 07:04 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-26-2003, 07:36 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Selby - 05-26-2003, 07:38 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kasreyn - 05-26-2003, 11:38 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Nystul - 05-27-2003, 04:19 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by yangman - 05-27-2003, 05:44 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Occhidiangela - 05-27-2003, 04:06 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-27-2003, 06:55 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by kandrathe - 05-27-2003, 07:42 PM

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