Something I proposed a while ago was akin to this in that the main purpose
was to allow for easy equipment switching w/o a chance for dropping your
weapon/instrument etc due to lag/bad interface etc.
Currently the hot keys work in the general notion that if I hit #1, it's the
equivilent of me clicking on that button, or spell icon. This should just
be carried over to inventory slots.
So if HotKey spot 1 has my primary weapon slot banked in it, and I press #1,
my staff of writhing should attach itself to the mouse pointer just as if i
single left clicked that spot. If HotKey spot 2 has an inventory slot
banked it it (and that slot has my thulian claw in it), pressing #2 should
drop my staff in that inventory slot, and attach the claw to my cursor,
again just as if I had single left clicked that spot. Pressing #1 again
would drop the claw into my primary weapon slot.
Granted this might sound a bit confusing, but it follows with the general
feel of the interface that's already there, and for the most part shouldnt
require much extra code.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) <
kblair@...>
To:
eqbards@onelist.com <
eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 12:57 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Bard Petition
>From: "Blair, Keith (Keith Blair)" <kblair@...>
>
>> How bout just giving us an instrument slot.
>> Not one where you could USE a weapon and
>> instrument at the same time, just some so
>> that we didn't have to> physically equip
>> and unequip constantly - just trade off in
>> some type of button arrangement - like archers
>> do between their bow and other weapons.
>
>What I've always wished for, and don't believe would take away from the "We
>want you to actually be doing something during a battle" belief's that I
>think Verant has is..
>
>Configurable Item Setups
>
>Let me explain briefly.. Currently we have 6 hot-key banks that we can
setup
>with things that we want to be able to do with a single push of a button.
>Why can't we add 6 more banks for three different "weapon setups" that we
>use? Let's say I setup my hot-configurations like so:
>
>M1=Meelee1, M2=Meelee2,
>R=RangedWeaponSlot,
>I1=InvSlot1, I2=InvSlot2, I3=InvSlot3
>
>1 - M1=CombineLS, M2=DragoonDirk, R=Empty, I1=Lute, I2=Drum
>2 - M1=CLS, M2=Shield, R=DD, I1=Lute, I2=Drum
>3 - M1=Empty, M2=Drum, R=DD, I1=CLS, I2=Shield, I3=Lute
>4 - M1=Empty, M2=Lute, R=DD, I1=CLS, I2=Shield, I3=Drum
>
>Then we could take the buttons for the 6 banks,and make them hot-keys in
one
>of our 6 hot-key banks. So I press 1 to load up my dual-wield, press 3 to
>load up my drum config, and 4 to load up my lute config, etc.. A delay
could
>be put in (say 1 attack round) so that it's not an instantaneous swap
(which
>would be nice, but unfair).
>
>I for one don't see the realism of having to manually make these changes.
>They're annoying at best having to click around so much, and at worst
>they're dangerous because you lose weapons/instruments/etc if you
mis-click.
>It's also something that's not useful for only a Bard. This is something
>that EVERY class in EQ could make use of. (Except perhaps the Monks since
>they have no weapons to swap around)
>
>What do you all think? I realize this likely isn't going to happen due to
>the amount of coding that would be required, but it's definitely on my wish
>list.
>
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