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Newbie Help (Start Here) / Small beginnings - questions about very basic game mechanics
« on: April 02, 2014, 01:43:27 pm »
Hello!
Accidentally started to ask about this in a different section of the forums, one aimed at solving problems before logging into the game proper.
In other words, it seems like very many clicks for a simple activity and I wonder if these can be reduced somehow.
Equally basic - casting a spell:
I had no trouble finding the different bits needed via the information given in the game tutorial but in the end I still had to open the Spell Book and click the spell from there over and over (yes, I took the cue from the NPC and used a Freeze spell on the poor little one-eyed rats near the fighting NPC).
I suspect I'm missing some very basic knowledge such as options to have a variety of options somehow quickslotted and assigning skills and actions to specific keys.
Moving up to a mob (still the poor one-eyed rats) tends to leave me not facing the mob or not being close enough for an action. I move again and it feels very clunky, slow and awkward. Note that I've playtested mixed games of the general type role-playing and multiplayer to some extent since around 1998 but that I'm also a lazy bum and fairly ignorant about many mechanics that must be second nature to others! I'm confident that the game has an option to move to target/attack/loot/change target simplified in a manner that requires less clicking and that I simply didn't spot it.
The bit with the spell in spell book worries me too, as I see no way to opt to cast a spell without keeping that pop-up spell interface open and use it from there Oh and those dastardly tough rats seem to ignore my starter Blue spell altogether!
I'm happy for any pointers - perhaps there is a nice link to information such as this (if my search-fu failed me, which it often does) or if someone superhumanly patient happens to stop by forums and this section and can explain a bit.
Accidentally started to ask about this in a different section of the forums, one aimed at solving problems before logging into the game proper.
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Currently figuring out how to move to target/attack and loot without too much clicking. I am at a keyboard a lot during the day and it's always nice when a game can have less clicks. At the moment I move, click to see options, click attack option, click to see options again and select looting, in loot interface I then click once for each item present. I went back here to search for optional ways to configure this in a manner that I automatically move up to mob and attack and subsequently loot the lot alternatively click to loot but only once.
In other words, it seems like very many clicks for a simple activity and I wonder if these can be reduced somehow.
Equally basic - casting a spell:
I had no trouble finding the different bits needed via the information given in the game tutorial but in the end I still had to open the Spell Book and click the spell from there over and over (yes, I took the cue from the NPC and used a Freeze spell on the poor little one-eyed rats near the fighting NPC).
I suspect I'm missing some very basic knowledge such as options to have a variety of options somehow quickslotted and assigning skills and actions to specific keys.
Moving up to a mob (still the poor one-eyed rats) tends to leave me not facing the mob or not being close enough for an action. I move again and it feels very clunky, slow and awkward. Note that I've playtested mixed games of the general type role-playing and multiplayer to some extent since around 1998 but that I'm also a lazy bum and fairly ignorant about many mechanics that must be second nature to others! I'm confident that the game has an option to move to target/attack/loot/change target simplified in a manner that requires less clicking and that I simply didn't spot it.
The bit with the spell in spell book worries me too, as I see no way to opt to cast a spell without keeping that pop-up spell interface open and use it from there Oh and those dastardly tough rats seem to ignore my starter Blue spell altogether!
I'm happy for any pointers - perhaps there is a nice link to information such as this (if my search-fu failed me, which it often does) or if someone superhumanly patient happens to stop by forums and this section and can explain a bit.