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Features to make it easier for gamers with injuries/disabilities?

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Link to post - Posted June 29th 2016 at 1:24 PM
Dea ex Machina
Hi folks. Small background here; a little while after I started playing Crusaders of the Lost Idols, I suffered an injury to my right arm, which did damage to my radial nerve. The effects are not unlike carpal tunnel, but in a different set of tubes that are harder to deal with. It's gonna take months in a wrist brace to heal and get back full feeling to some of my fingers.

As a result, I play Crusaders a bit differently now. I switch to a left handed mouse sometimes to give my right hand a break, and I hardly click at all, focusing on the passive DPS game. It's a bit slower, but perfectly doable, Crusaders of the lost idols is actually really good for that, and I commend the team! There's just two little problems:

1. Some daily quests are really difficult with my current limitation, and cannot be abandoned.

Specifically, Click some more/Click way more/Click tons more.

The way I play now, doing these quests is really hard for me. And the blasted things have piled up. I now have ALL THREE click daily quests. And as far as I can tell, no possible way to get rid of them or let them expire.

If there could be a button that would let me ditch one unwanted quest every so often? That would be a REAL help.

2. Some button combinations can only be done two handed, and specifically right hand on mouse, left on keyboard.

During the early days in the brace when I was supposed to avoid using my right hand at all if I could possibly avoid it, levelling crusaders became SUPER inconvenient, because I couldn't hit the ctrl key, the shift key, AND the mouse button simultaneously when I only had one hand. I had to manually click up with my left hand one level at a time for every crusader. And now when I have some use of my right hand but I switch to a left handed mouse setup sometimes to rest it, trying to use my right hand to press the ctrl shift combo on the keyboard is very awkward. Did you know that ONLY the left ctrl button works? Both shift keys work, but pressing the right ctrl key does nothing, I don't know if that's a bug.

I'm not sure what the best solution to that is, but right now making it so BOTH ctrl keys work for the combo would help a bit, and beyond that if it were possible to customize the keybinds maybe? Or a toggle in options for "level up in multiples of 25", so I could do that with one mouse button when I want to instead of trying to figure out how to hold down three buttons simultaneously?

These suggestions would help me a lot, but I imagine would also help a lot of other folks, from people with temporary injuries to amputees to parents gaming one handed while holding a sleeping/nursing newborn, etc.

Thanks for reading!

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Link to post - Posted June 29th 2016 at 1:52 PM
Teschio
For clicking daily quests, I suggest using the Click-o-rama skill when you have accumulated 3 of them. Maybe with Magnify first, to get 15 clicks per second instead of 10. Just be aware that you actually have to click monsters (via the skill, not mouse clicks), and therefore you CAN'T use this tactic if you are instakilling monsters (they die before clicks can trigger). The best thing you could do is drop some crusaders until you no longer instakill (possibly with a tanking formation), and only then start using the skill. Between the talent that increases skill durations, cooldown reduction trinkets, and the fact that click-o-rama has the shortest cooldown to begin with, you should complete all 3 quests relatively quickly.

For your second problem, once again talents help you: the "spend it all" talent is very cheap and lets you buy multiple levels with a single click (and there is another talent for skills, so even less clicking). Granted, it's for your whole formation and not for a single crusader, but as long as you instakill monsters this doesn't make any difference.
Also, when you are not instakilling anymore and therefore you buy levels only for your main DPSer, you can just use the crtl key, and buy 100 levels at a time (or all you can affor if you can't buy 100). Leveling in multiples of 25 makes no sense, since only ONE crusader will be leveled up you can spend money on him as much as you can.

These of course are temporary solutions to hep you enjoy the game. Obviously I am in favor of anything that can help people with disabilities or injuries.

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Link to post - Posted June 29th 2016 at 5:12 PM
Raymond
to do clicking quests instantly or very quickly simply:
remove everyone from your formation and only put in the bw2 not leveled up much at all.
then click or let the click o rama do some.

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Link to post - Posted June 30th 2016 at 2:40 PM
Bluji
Regarding the daily quest suggestion: I do agree that removing daily quests on demand would be a nice feature. Maybe so that if you have three stacked up and it's at least 24 hours from the last one activating, you could remove one of them? Some other games do such a thing this way or similarly, and I find it useful.
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