Hot buttons for PBP mode

[Lex Logan]

I remember reading a request for this but searching only brought up a huge, 25-page thread stemming from a poll of desired features for BM2K8. So:

Since I started playing in one-pitch mode, my right index finger has become quite sore. I can't find a comfortable alternative to using that finger to click the mouse. Please, please, please add hot buttons for "Pitch" and "Hit" if nothing else. This is URGENT!

[xirr]

Yes please.

[Lex Logan]

Bump. It's very disappointing that several patches have been issued since I posted this. I've learned to turn the mouse sideways and click with my thumb but that's awkward and may simply transfer the problem. Multiple mouse clicks = repetitive stress injury, this ought to be well known to any porgrammer. What's weird is that hitting the space bar, the obvious choice for "do the next routine thing" instead equates to "finish the game". Does anyone use that routinely? I would bet that far more players are surprised and anoyed by that hotkey than actually use it. Surely it's not difficult to switch that key, or enter, to pressing the swing/pitch button.

[eggson27]

I agree completely with this, and am also disappointed this has not been considered or added since you first posted. I played 162 games in one-pitch mode, within a few weeks, causing my index finger to become quite sore. It would be great if there were two keys on the keyboard, as Lex said, such as B and P, for batting and hitting.

[Lex Logan]

bump -- since someone else recently asked about this

[Lex Logan]

My right index finger is now too sore to use a mouse. The kludge of crabbing the mouse sideways and clicking with the thumb is too awkward for everything except the simple pitch/swing click. It looks like I'm going to have to quit playing all games on my PC; don't know what I'll do with my time.

I'm extremely disappointed -- I've seen Clay respond to a wide variety of problems quickly. Complete silence on this one. This seems so obvious, the enter key already does something, it just does something stupid -- asks if you want to finish the game. Who needs a hot key for that? Why not have it or the space bar press the pitch/swing button?

[1912]

I'm probably in the wrong place but i would like to have the option of using the mouse for each hitter in general manager mode. i play a lot of games with the computer using my strategy settings for the first six innings but i would like to slow the game down to think about making personnel and strategy moves in the late innings. this is a great game because it gives the player so many options [seasons to play; free agency or reserve clause historic years or players]i would like to have one more

[Lex Logan]

I'm probably in the wrong place but i would like to have the option of using the mouse for each hitter in general manager mode. i play a lot of games with the computer using my strategy settings for the first six innings but i would like to slow the game down to think about making personnel and strategy moves in the late innings. this is a great game because it gives the player so many options [seasons to play; free agency or reserve clause historic years or players]i would like to have one more

The Skip Inning option, with the ability to interrupt for X number of baserunners, handles this beautifully; it's one of the major improvements in 2K11. You breeze through the "nothing to think about" innings and have a chance to think when something is afoot.

[Lex Logan]

Bump. It still seems like we should be able to press the space bar for pitch/swing, and perhaps the enter key for skip inning -- who needs a hot button for finish game?

[Moynes]

Agreed, that would be way more convenient for a lazy S.O.B like me.

[Lex Logan]

Be sure to rate this thread if you would use the hot buttons; Clay has ignored this for two years now. I'd love full keyboard control, but the pitch/swing and skip inning would be simple to add.

[End of the Road]

I just found this thread and have to assume it's tounge-in-cheek! Your finger is too sore from clicking the mouse button? Really? Man up dude!

[LQ1Z34]

I just found this thread and have to assume it's tounge-in-cheek! Your finger is too sore from clicking the mouse button? Really? Man up dude!

I can assure you his request would be appreciated by me as well.

[Lex Logan]

Nothing tounge-in-cheek about it. Mouse clicking is a known, high-frequency source of repetitive stress injury. It requires a lot more pressure to click a mouse than a key. Nothing else I do requires anywhere near the amount of mouse-clicking per minute as Baseball Mogul. I have to hold the mouse crab-wise and click with my thumb. Also, you can easily vary which finger clicks a key; it is quite difficult to click a mouse with anything but the index finger. If you've never sufferred injury from using a computer, I'll assume you are under 30.

[Moynes]

You can also get injuries from typing, I've heard of people getting carpal tunnel syndrome from using their keyboard too much. Still, I would very much prefer to use the keyboard over the mouse in play by play mode.