Please improve mouse navigation in next release..

[Ryster]

Hi guys

Please can you spend a short while and improve mouse navigation in the next release. Only having the arrow keys available to scroll around the map with is getting annoying now.

What I'd like to see is:

1) Zoom in to and out from where the pointer is. This is how many modern games function and makes scrolling around the game effortless.
2) As a backup to the above, please add edge scrolling.

Thanks.

p.s. If I've missed something, and there are ways of moving around the map other than the arrow keys, please feel free to correct me

[Mouaku]

pressing the middle mouse button allows your to pull the camera, a bit annoying when you are placing things, as this is used to change rotation also.

[_alphaBeta_]

Good suggestions, and most have been mentioned in past posts.

AWSD on the keyboard also moves the map. SHIFT scroll has also been suggested to speed up the scroll speed. For now, you can zoom out while moving and zoom in again to quickly get across the map.

[Stardog]

Hi guys

Please can you spend a short while and improve mouse navigation in the next release. Only having the arrow keys available to scroll around the map with is getting annoying now.

What I'd like to see is:

1) Zoom in to and out from where the pointer is. This is how many modern games function and makes scrolling around the game effortless.
2) As a backup to the above, please add edge scrolling.

Thanks.

p.s. If I've missed something, and there are ways of moving around the map other than the arrow keys, please feel free to correct me

Wow, how could you have gone that long without knowing about middle mouse? It's pretty standard.

[Ryster]

Wow, how could you have gone that long without knowing about middle mouse? It's pretty standard.

I knew about middle mouse, but it's hardly standard. In fact it's fiddly as hell. The very fact that it's also the wheel (not to mention item rotate) means that at best it's cumbersome.

What is standard in games these days is edge scrolling, and wheel zoom to pointer.

[shinku]

I'd like to use right mouse button for moving around a map. Not a drag-style as middle mouseb, but a constantly moving. Best if there was an option of middleb/rightb and drag/move

[Stardog]

Wow, how could you have gone that long without knowing about middle mouse? It's pretty standard.

I knew about middle mouse, but it's hardly standard. In fact it's fiddly as hell. The very fact that it's also the wheel (not to mention item rotate) means that at best it's cumbersome.

What is standard in games these days is edge scrolling, and wheel zoom to pointer.

Edge scrolling in RTS's is so 1995

They should change item rotate to MouseUp instead of MouseDown and make sure it doesn't rotate after MouseDrag, or something similar.