JTCS v2.0 — Likes and Dislikes

[berto]

Two things I absolutely don't [love]:

Tiny buttons on the bottom. I can't see them for crap...
The opfire button changed!

First issue: Discussed elsewhere.

The second issue...

It's the price of progress.

We had need of a Disrupted hot key. Not everybody uses the Opportunity Fire Dialog, or not so much. But who wouldn't want to see easily all Disrupted units? Isn't Display > Highlight > Disrupted Units an even more valuable and often used function than summoning the Opportunity Fire Dialog?

So, highlight Disrupted is the top dog here.

D is the obvious hot key assignment for display Disrupted. Is there any other?

D as the traditional hot key for Opportunity Fire Dialog? Is that the only dialog in the game? At least the new Ctrl-P hot key is more mnemonic for Opportunity Fire than D, don't you think? (O was retained as the traditional hot key for Toggle display of Objectives.)

(Assigning the D hot key to highlight Disrupted also follows the principle of simple key presses for display functions. More convoluted key combos, like Ctrl-P, were reserved for functions that do or might have real impact beyond mere display changes.)

At the Matrix Forum (the official support site for the JTCS), we had raised the issue of hot keys as far back as last May. If anybody raised an objection to the hot key reassignment of Opportunity Fire, I don't recall it.

With many hundreds of active JTCS players, each with their own preferences and playing styles, it is impossible to achieve a 100% perfect consensus on hot key assignments. (Not to mention so many other game issues.) Unless the game stays frozen in time, there will be changes. Everybody will find something to dislike. We weren't too happy about the few hot key reassignments, and there were just a few; most traditional hot keys were retained. But at least the changes were not across the board, were just "at the edges". And all changes were given careful consideration.