by Lujo on Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:47 pm
I see your point dude, but I'm with the OP. You can't really use any personal "code of honor" or ethos as a basis for rules that should apply to everybody. Because you might be wrong, or priviledged, and anyway, you got the right notion, but too perscripitve. Not sure if Kant would agree with you and how much, but I'm pretty sure you've allready figure'd it out and Avatar explained all that.
I'm all for a "u sure" button on the missclick grounds. I don't mind presonally dying to inatention, and all that, but whatever the dev's'd like to think the game they've made is more of a puzzle than a roguelike, and the fact that you can manually press a spell hotkey a milisecond after you click attack instead of before and die to it brings in a veritable dexterity hazard into a very, very turn based game. I've often joked that the CYDSTEPP glyph's entire balancing is that it adds a manual dexterity hazard which can kill you (that statement used to be 100% true once).
I've been over it before - the DP mechanic is a deathtrap, and when I made video's people noticed I never use the glyph hotkeys even when spamming fireballs with a 30+ mana pool but insted mouse click them one by one. It looks insane, it is insane, it's not fun at all, and I'm forced to do it if I wan't to create those "optimal playing circumastances" because I'm 30 minutes into Gaan'Telet with an excessive loadout and might be making a video which I'll have to do all over again because of someone's possibly unaccurate notions.
Maybe the game would be less addictive, I don't know, but I wouldn't feel like I'm being trolled by whoever hasn't coded the warning into it yet, and if the game ends up being moddable in any way you can be pretty sure that'll be the first thing modded into it. You can also be pretty sure that there will be an interesting percentage of people who'll try the game, get very annoyed with the "hotkey misclick" or "DP unattention" specificaly, leave, and come back and enjoy it a lot after some acquaintance convinces them that there is a mod on steam worshop that almost everybody is using that deals with that.
Srry for the tone, and srry for lack of videos and involment lately, guys.
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!