X-News 16 Vote: Mouse or Keyboard

[JonHandby]

We want to ask YOU for your opinion on this subject of Mouse cursor or keys in the new quickmenus. These are the two fundamentally different ways that the new quickmenus could be controlled. This has been an almost religious subject of discussion at egosoft in the past. Do we want to have a mouse cursor in X games?

So we ask you, in the new quickmenu system, do you think it should be controlled via Mouse or Keyboard?

Let us know by voting!

You can read the English X-News 16 by going to this link: http://www.egosoft.com/x/xnews/200410_44SpecialNews.html

[Merroc]

i voted keyboard cos mostly i use the joystick to move through menu's (with the 8 way hat thingy). and i dont know if i can still do that with a mouse interface. im already changing from joystick to keyboard a lot, and i dont want to have to change to mouse too...

[The_Abyss]

Mouse, because we can still use the keyboard if we want.

[Merroc]

and thus use the hat too?, if so can i change my vote?

[Graaf]

Keyboard!

The last time I tried to use a mouse I crashed into an asteroid.

[amberdragon]

Mouse. As long as keyboard is still available as a backup.

[X-Warrior B AS]

Like most people before me already said: both mouse and keyboard. Maybe that option should be in the voting list ?

[The_Abyss]

[X-Warrior B AS]

[Dublex]

I think the mouse is the best idea, as you would still be able t use the keyboard but have the mouse option if you wanted.

[Remium]

I like the keyboard because a mouse cursor, for me, takes me out of the imersion. Right now, when I press a hot key on the KB, it's like I'm pressing a button on the command console of my ship. To grab the mouse and execute a click, just seems to r/l....which is what I'm trying to avoid.

Or....why not have an option so people can play both ways. Just a simple togle switch in the options screen to either enable mouse cursor or hotkeys.

I also think having the menus appear as part of the ships console, when in cockpit / flying mode, then morph from that to the full screen menus would also assist in the imersion.

[Aasvogel]

I would prefer keyboard use and programable hot keys. Plus the option to assign the shortcuts to my gamepad controller.

Mouse control as far as I am concerned should be an option only, not a replacement. Having to use the mouse as well as a gamepad/joystick will be a nuisance.

[wwwolf]

No to mouse. I think they should spend there time on improving something else instead.

I do beleve that we should have assignable hot keys that are programable like in Sacrifice. Or how about giving us the option for 'Scripted Hot Keys' so I can switch all of my M2 weapons with 1 key stroke, or assign a key to a particular ship so that I can give it instructions then I can go and do something else knowing that I can pull it back up with 1 key rather than having to go through the menus all over again.

Time is a valuable commodity and I just think it should be used wisely.

wwwolf

[Logaan]

I voted mouse, simply on teh basis that I think it would be easier for the QuickMenus

[jdm5000]

Keyboard. I'm already used to using the joystick with my right hand and the KB with the left. I don't want to have to switch my right hand over to the mouse and back constantly...