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Title: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: Retribution on December 08, 2011, 02:28:22 am
Aside from space to end your turn, are there any other possible shortcuts for elements?

What if you could click 1-8 on your keyboard to play the designated card in your hand? Just a suggestion, for those who don't want to click the mouse all day...
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: YawnChainHow on December 08, 2011, 02:44:30 am
If you are so inclined, you can keep hitting Tab until the card you want is highlighted, and hit Enter to play/use it.

Having said that, I like the 1-8 idea.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: Sevs on December 08, 2011, 02:50:53 am
If you are so inclined, you can keep hitting Tab until the card you want is highlighted, and hit Enter to play/use it.

Having said that, I like the 1-8 idea.
and your keyboard is essentially a mirror of the playing field :P s-k for middle row, w-o for top row and z-, for bottom row.

or you could move them all up a row and use the bottom row of your keyboard for perms lol. haha well this is probably too far. but it could be fun
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: silux on December 17, 2011, 11:40:44 am
1-8 for card deployment sounds cool. It also make bots easier to do!
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: dylan159 on July 31, 2012, 12:23:55 pm
i can't stand a so important topic hasn't got the right attention. admins here!
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: rosutosefi on July 31, 2012, 12:50:26 pm
i can't stand a so important topic hasn't got the right attention. admins here!
There's only one admin that has control over the game, the Lead Developer himself. Let's just wait patiently for him, he also has a job y'know. I know he has better plans like nerfing SoFo and such. And don't necro unnecessarily.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: Blacksmith on July 31, 2012, 10:08:30 pm
Yes I'm just another one who likes this idea. How about z x c to target your creatures skill, I play Lava golems so I would love that.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: OldTrees on August 01, 2012, 06:15:14 am
There are far too many options to be hot keyed. (Show me how you would get all 48 targets for Lightning. Is that compatible with all the targets for Deflagration?)
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on August 01, 2012, 06:36:40 am
There are far too many options to be hot keyed. (Show me how you would get all 48 targets for Lightning. Is that compatible with all the targets for Deflagration?)
We could just press a key and then we could change the target with the arrow keys, though using mouse would be much-much faster. Anyway, the 1-8 card selecting suggestion is a very good one, especially for vanilla rushing decks. :D
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: furballdn on August 01, 2012, 06:38:10 am
There are far too many options to be hot keyed. (Show me how you would get all 48 targets for Lightning. Is that compatible with all the targets for Deflagration?)
Each side has 19 (perms) + 23 (creatures) + 8 (cards) as well as 12 quanta pools if they were to be target-able later. The only way I can think of a solution to this is using a special key to toggle opponent's side and your side. There's 36 numbers and letters, and with the rest of the random keys you can probably scrap out 14 more. Still overly complicated though.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: ddevans96 on August 01, 2012, 07:18:00 am
Two possible alternatives to arrow keys - alt and ctrl modifying, and multi-step selection. No idea how they'd work in practice, but they sound cool in theory.

I know not all keyboards have the same layout, I'm basing this off a standard QWERTY keyboard with regular ctrl and alt keys. This could be modified to work with other layouts, I think.

Here's alt and ctrl modifying:



1-8: Select card from hand

If the card targets only creatures (i.e. adrenaline):
* alt+w - alt+o = creature in opponent's top row
* alt+s - alt+k = creature in opponent's middle row
* alt+z - alt+< = creature in opponent's bottom row

If the card also targets players (i.e. lightning):
* alt+\ = opponent

If the card targets permanents (i.e. explosion):
* alt+q - alt+o = opponent's perm in top row (u, i, and o are shield, weapon, and mark)
* alt+a - alt+k = opponent's perm in bottom row

In all cases, swap alt for ctrl when targeting yourself.

Other possibilities:
Esc: Menu
Settings: P
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: Blacksmith on August 01, 2012, 10:26:04 am
There are far too many options to be hot keyed. (Show me how you would get all 48 targets for Lightning. Is that compatible with all the targets for Deflagration?)

I just meant it would be faster for cards like Lava Destroyers not for SoF or explosion. And then I mean a targeting only on the first 5 or 8 slots.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: dylan159 on August 24, 2012, 04:02:15 pm
i can't stand a so important topic hasn't got the right attention. admins here!
There's only one admin that has control over the game, the Lead Developer himself. Let's just wait patiently for him, he also has a job y'know. I know he has better plans like nerfing SoFo and such. And don't necro unnecessarily.
i have great respect of what admins do, i just want to improve this game. as what i see, my necro revived the post and took out more ideas from other users. i don't call it unnecessary, maybe more appropriate than starting a topic
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: storyteller on July 27, 2013, 07:11:42 am
Id like to bump the suggestion to have 1-8 play a card from thehand. might not be super great for cards that have target actions, but in general, it could be pretty handy. further, maybe 0 plays all pillars/pends you have.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: Leodip on July 27, 2013, 12:37:08 pm
It should be something like: 1-8, play card in hand, 0 all pillars. Let's say that we play a Lightning, you then press shift to target your opponent's cards or he himself, shift again to target you. When you activate an effect that targets something (lightning, again), letters appear on the valid targets of the selected field. With 26 letters it'll be more than enough to target your opponent's creatures and him.
I don't know about how difficult it'd be to program, probably not too much, but not too little, for sure.
Title: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Elements
Post by: Silux on July 27, 2013, 10:53:36 pm
adding keyboard shortcuts to a flash game is a really easy task, but long and not so interesting.

Targeting is best done with arrows.Still an easy task if you use a switch statement using case as the number of the slot, but boring.
 
You can use a script to move the mouse with the keyboard to custom locations, but it would be against the rules.


There could be also an auto-play pillars option, so that if you get them in hand they get played!
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