At 08:59 AM 7/8/99 -0500, Bard wrote:

>Gaaah! You use the mouse during battle? :::feels feint::: With my crappy
>connection, the only way I can twist 3 songs is by using the keyboard.

Hmmm. I suspect we've uncovered an unspoken detail. I have noticed when I
use the keyboard to twist I can go too fast and not be able to start the
next because the previous hasn't quite finished. That doesn't happen with
the mouse. Sounds like the mouse has a built-in delay due to being less
responsive.

> Also, just dl'd Roger Wilco nad have used it ingame while grouping with
>other people in my guild that have it... WOW! It makes SUCH a difference!
>Voice communication while in-game, that doesn't take away from CPU-usage
>that any of us have been able to notice. I can't recommend it enough.

I'm a big Roger Wilco fan, too. My gaming buddies and I have used it a lot
with Baldur's Gate. We've been trying to use it with EverQuest, but one
guy keeps having trouble that he can't transmit. It's frustrating with
EverQuest because when Roger gets sick you have to completely leave EQ to
fix it. Leading to:

EverQuest has the most frustrating, baroque, complicated, step-filled,
ugly, memoryless way in and out of it that I've had the displeasure of
using. It clacks back and forth between screen resolutions, forces me to
interact in repetative, silly ways, takes way too long timing out on link
failures, and doesn't give me options for hurrying it along, such as a way
to break out of the timer when I'm sure my link is dead. It even gives me
a frustrating peek at my screen, showing me that the link has failed, then
goes through attempts and timeouts trying to get back to the login server
when it's completely hopeless, so I can click in three (!) different places
to make it go away and reconnect.

Some things about EverQuest are outstanding. Some are abysmal. Obviously
the plusses outweigh the minusses for me, but oh, what it could be with
some of the easier minusses fixed....

Bob