Ability to resize and rebind action bars!

sillz
sillz Posts: 2 Arc User
edited March 2010 in Suggestion Box
This is the single thing stopping me from playing this game, more so the inability to rebind the action bars from F keys and 1-6 to any button on my mouse / keyboard!

I wouldn't have wasted over 2gb download if I knew this wasn't possible, it's a game killer for alot of people i bet.

You could do well to allow people to mod the UI themselves too, so we can get a better HUD/minimap and action bars (they are too small).

If you could consider this, I for sure would definately play Perfect World.

Thankyou
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  • Valkyun - Heavens Tear
    Valkyun - Heavens Tear Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    If you're having problems with the sizes of your interface change the resolution of the game. It doesn't have to perfectly fit your monitor.

    Also, why would you want to rebind your commands to any other button. That really crowds up the keyboard and the number and F keys are the easiest things to reach when using WASD commands. Not to mention that the number and F keys are pretty standard.
  • sillz
    sillz Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    If you're having problems with the sizes of your interface change the resolution of the game. It doesn't have to perfectly fit your monitor.

    Also, why would you want to rebind your commands to any other button. That really crowds up the keyboard and the number and F keys are the easiest things to reach when using WASD commands. Not to mention that the number and F keys are pretty standard.

    lol you are obviously new to computing... change the resolution? Don't be silly, i don't run an 8800GTX Oc'd and a 24" monitor of resolution 1920x1200 to settle for downgrading. Allow resizing of action bars and chat boxes, problem solved.

    Please don't take anything i say the wrong way, but i am a computer and gaming enthusiast, have played many many MMO's and not allowing rebinding of the keys is the most game killing thing to a serious gamer.

    1-6 and F keys easiest to use? You must be kidding me, lol not by a long shot. I use my two side mouse buttons, scroll up and down and scroll click for 5 buttons, then the rest of my main abilities on Q,E,R,F,G,Z,X,C,V ..any real gamer be it FPS or MMO will tell you this.

    This is real basics of a game, an MMO especially that the devs have overlooked.
  • Niamy - Sanctuary
    Niamy - Sanctuary Posts: 269 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    sillz wrote: »
    lol you are obviously new to computing... change the resolution? Don't be silly, i don't run an 8800GTX Oc'd and a 24" monitor of resolution 1920x1200 to settle for downgrading. Allow resizing of action bars and chat boxes, problem solved.

    Please don't take anything i say the wrong way, but i am a computer and gaming enthusiast, have played many many MMO's and not allowing rebinding of the keys is the most game killing thing to a serious gamer.

    1-6 and F keys easiest to use? You must be kidding me, lol not by a long shot. I use my two side mouse buttons, scroll up and down and scroll click for 5 buttons, then the rest of my main abilities on Q,E,R,F,G,Z,X,C,V ..any real gamer be it FPS or MMO will tell you this.

    This is real basics of a game, an MMO especially that the devs have overlooked.

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  • Valkyun - Heavens Tear
    Valkyun - Heavens Tear Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    sillz wrote: »
    lol you are obviously new to computing... change the resolution? Don't be silly, i don't run an 8800GTX Oc'd and a 24" monitor of resolution 1920x1200 to settle for downgrading. Allow resizing of action bars and chat boxes, problem solved.

    Please don't take anything i say the wrong way, but i am a computer and gaming enthusiast, have played many many MMO's and not allowing rebinding of the keys is the most game killing thing to a serious gamer.

    1-6 and F keys easiest to use? You must be kidding me, lol not by a long shot. I use my two side mouse buttons, scroll up and down and scroll click for 5 buttons, then the rest of my main abilities on Q,E,R,F,G,Z,X,C,V ..any real gamer be it FPS or MMO will tell you this.

    This is real basics of a game, an MMO especially that the devs have overlooked.

    Okay. I'm quite offended by your ill manners. First off, I'm not new to computing at all. And it's quite rude to peg that on someone who's just offering a suggestion to your problem. I don't know what MMOs you're playing, but I've never seen any game use side mouse buttons. Mostly because not everybody has them. Also, it's not downgrading to change the resolution of the game. There's hardly any change to the graphics, apart from the size of the interface itself. I myself am also a gaming enthusiast, and have experimented with multiple different MMOs of all genres, and not only do they keep away from mouse heavy controls (for most 3rd person MMOs at least), but I've never seen any game use Q,E,R,F,G,Z,X,C,V keys for their commands. So I'm curious. What game are you comparing Perfect World to?
  • Rivaan - Sanctuary
    Rivaan - Sanctuary Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    If people didn't like to rebind keys many MMOs wouldn't offer it.

    They do so therefore it's something offered players on many, many MMOs. IF you doubt it, open your other games and check.

    Cripes, key binding was available back in the D2 days.

    Doesn't matter what people use - that's the purpose behind key binding - allowing a user with their own peculiarities, and/or disabilities, to make the game easier to use for them.

    If someone wants to use a game controller, sit in a tricked out game chair with the largest screen and hot rig - it's their choice.

    It IS a dev oversight.

    I don't know how this is the case as this game appears to come from the East and the players there seem to be more tech savvy than the West, but that's just how I see it.

    So perhaps some decision was made when it was ported out here.

    I really think sillz was talking to the GAME devs and anyone who would pass on his message.

    You know, the official people.

    I don't think he/she was asking for help or other player input about his/her gameplay.
  • romedi
    romedi Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    any "real gamer" could adapt to controls and learn how to play the game instead of griping cause they suck.
  • Krel - Heavens Tear
    Krel - Heavens Tear Posts: 178 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    i just add my good always used skills to my hotkeys..and just click the mouse on the others..please dont be lazy to click a freakin skil lfor christsakes!
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  • Adriazirma - Sanctuary
    Adriazirma - Sanctuary Posts: 44 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    I don't agree with the tone of sillz's posts, but he's right. I - for example - always used inverted mouse for camera up/down. I HAVE TO adapt (I did), but now I'm confused in other games when I play them with original settings. Yet I'm still not changed completely to non-inverted mouse. That's one thing.

    WASD is one of those standard, but I'm from ESDF crowd. Many other people are there two for one simple reason - there is more keys around. Second reason is ergonomic - if you know how to type-write, then your point-finger ALWAYS drops to F - hence ESDF is the best option for me.

    Next... when you fly, you can use down-arrow to lower your altitude - why can't I bind this to Ctrl or somewhere else when I have one hand around WASD and second hand on my mouse?

    You may dislike sillz's tone - although he still didn't cross the edge (many posters are much worse) but your advices are very limited. I'd like to change the bindings, it definitely IS flaw of the game. Yes, I still play it, but that doesn't make it any better when it comes to customization. It limits the experience and/or it collides with your habits from other games. I don't play only PWI. Luckily PWI default keys don't suck like the one in Sacred game where you couldn't set them up either and they were even worse. ;-)

    As for UI elements resizing - he's right again. Few of my friends tried PWI and they simply couldn't overcome this issue on bigger resolutions. Minimap is not minimap, it's micromap. ;-)
  • dragontricks
    dragontricks Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    sillz wrote: »
    This is the single thing stopping me from playing this game, more so the inability to rebind the action bars from F keys and 1-6 to any button on my mouse / keyboard!

    I wouldn't have wasted over 2gb download if I knew this wasn't possible, it's a game killer for alot of people i bet.

    You could do well to allow people to mod the UI themselves too, so we can get a better HUD/minimap and action bars (they are too small).

    If you could consider this, I for sure would definately play Perfect World.

    Thankyou

    I agree 100% with sillz on this! Key-binding and UI resizing is pretty standard with mmo's today. I was really surprised to not see those features in PWI. I thought maybe I was overlooking the button or menu option to do this, but after 10 mins or so of looking...nothing b:sad

    I will cross my fingers and wait for improvement in next patch, until then I will make due.
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  • Yourmom - Lost City
    Yourmom - Lost City Posts: 1,655 Arc User
    edited December 2008

    Next... when you fly, you can use down-arrow to lower your altitude - why can't I bind this to Ctrl or somewhere else when I have one hand around WASD and second hand on my mouse?

    hit z to drop altitude
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  • lickable
    lickable Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    What about this, I have a very fast computer and a very fast internet connection. But when I get on the game, I lag really really bad... that is, until I Max out all the graphics, textures, distance, shadows, and so on. Then I hardly ever lag. On occasion I will get stuck in a Lag loop where I wont be able to move my character with out it getting reset into its previous position. At this time I go ahead and turn down all the graphics, textures, distance, shadows, ect. This cause usually causes me to lag so bad that I get DC'ed. Everyone is telling me that I don't know what I'm doing and that I need to turn the graphics down but that isn't the case, I know what Im doing, I have been playing these kinds of games now for more than 20 years.
    Please help me figure out what else I can do. E-mail is shown below.
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    On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:19:25 -0700, Joshua Gibilisco
    <joshua.gibilisco@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > But that only allows me to key bind up to 8 abilities, F1- F8. I would like to have at least 28 different key binds. Such as
    > 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, shift-1, shift-2, shift-3, shift-4, shift-5, shift-6, shift-7, shift-8, shift-9 and so on. Sorry if this seems complicated.
    > I have been playing MMORPG's since I was little, I also do a little computer programing and c++.
    > Reason I as for more key bindings because I use a speed pad to reduce the time it takes to look for actions set up on a small hot bar. and having F1-F8 isn't very convenient.
    > But I was able to reconfigure my speed pad to match your hot bar "F1-F8"... but its still just 8 moves.
    > Is there a way to add more key bindings? If not that's OK, can you please forward this to someone who might be able to implement it into the game?
    > I would appreciate that very much! :D
    > Thank you for your time.
    >
    > Sincerely: Kazal - Barbarian Untamed
  • nodensntt
    nodensntt Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Agreed. Key remapping is a must but even worse is the inability to resize certain aspects of the UI. For example the minimap is VERY small even on standard 1280x1024 which is the most widely used resolution on LCD monitors out there. Dropping resolution, apart from the apparent graphics quality downgrade, on LCD monitors causes awful blurring due to downscalling. LCD monitors have a crisp image on their native resolutions only. So far in the game, the minimap has been entirely unusable to me as I can't discern anything on it. And I'm on 1280x1024 on standard 19inch monitor. I can only imagine how it must look to anyone with a higher resolution, so bump.
  • Sneakret - Heavens Tear
    Sneakret - Heavens Tear Posts: 618 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Keybinds- hit "k" to open the menu
    Interface - can't be re-sized get over it

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  • Asperitas - Lost City
    Asperitas - Lost City Posts: 907 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    This thread is irrelevant now. There's customizable key-bindings.

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