Marco Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Wow.. been.. probably a year since I made a topic in this board.. And probably one of very few to come now that it is the combined pit of hell.. God this combined board is getting messy :P Anyway, the topic up for discussion today is.... The usefulness of the new hot keys! Since Jagex updated the game engine a couple of days ago, we can now use the following keys as shortcuts in Runescape; Esc - Inventory F1 - Combat options F2 - Your statistics F3 - Quest Journal F4 - Equipped interface F5 - Prayer F6 - Spellbook F8 - Friends list F9 - Ignore list F10 - Options interface F11 - Emotes F12 - Music Player Now, the question I'm posing is does anyone find these hotkeys useful, and if so in what way? Maybe it's the setup of the keyboard on my laptop, but to be perfectly honest the only hotkey that seems usable generally is the Esc Key for the Inventory as it's on the end. All the other keys seems like more trouble than actually moving your mousee over to each tab. However, I'm convinced that there is some huge benifit of these shortcuts somewhere in the game, like when doing certain skills involving switching between various interface tabs, but for the life of me I can't see any, as again, I don't keep my hands over the F keys, so it'd take longer to press one of the keys than to move my mouse. So, because of my desire to not miss out on this huge hidden benifit.. who's actually found a good situation to use these keys in? Or are they simply quite pointless and a waste of time on Jagex's part? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yugun Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 i dunno, sometimes it helps, I've got a feeling it'll help when you want to use a special of a weapon then switch to another since the keys are so close... I think maybe in cw... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueleader9 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 i agree with you, but there are some who will use them....I mean it doesn't rly effect us. I'm wearing Rune Axe.Wearing? Did you selotape the axe on your chest? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_1134 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Well I use the inventory tab quite a lot- very handy. Also my friend is planning on using em for fightcaves :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingy77 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I find it useful when I'm making tiaras for crafting. I can easily talk to friends and smelt at the same time. Plus it has to be handy for pkers, dkers, kqers, and kbders and probably if your dhoraking. To get in her you need a lockpick...Wait for it, wait for it..Bow chicka bow wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rareghoul1 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 not worth the hassle of memorising :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aresgodowar Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 sad no one's though of this yet Jad if i need to explain more i will Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. George S. Patton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSxqPowerx Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Yeah, the esc one is convenient. And I'm sure there is some skilling use we haven't found yet. And maybe if you got really good they'd help for like pking or kqing or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 sad no one's though of this yet Jad if i need to explain more i will I guess switching from the prayer menu primerally right? If it isn't then please continue and explain. I'm considering going for the Fire Cape soon.. as soon as I get enough to buy Guthans.. Even at 80 something defense I get the feeling something will go wrong, and I don't want to ever have to go through those caves again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aresgodowar Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 sad no one's though of this yet Jad if i need to explain more i will I guess switching from the prayer menu primerally right? If it isn't then please continue and explain. I'm considering going for the Fire Cape soon.. as soon as I get enough to buy Guthans.. Even at 80 something defense I get the feeling something will go wrong, and I don't want to ever have to go through those caves again.. u got it switching between prayer screen and super restores/range pots Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. George S. Patton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VurtualRuler98 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I have yet to try it, but I think if you had a gamepad you could set some of the buttons on the pad to an F key so you can not have to move the cursor around. They also revealed that the hidden lower left tab will be used. ^_^ Sir, the Panzerschreck squad is blocking the road! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olbritishchap Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 i've been trying to use them instead of clicking(to get a feel for them) while barrowing, not really necesarry to be quick if you know what you're doing. they are usefull if you get them memorized, especially for jad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n64jive Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I myself don't use them, but It would be pretty easy to use them to switch between magic and prayer interface during pking, or magic, prayer, and inv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jemathonical Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I don't use them. I'm happy with clicking my mouse, I'm kinda used to it. ^Sir Jem 05-The Bunny Drinking Blog?^ Click it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samsam Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I would rather, that instead of changing menus, the buttons did specific things. For example, f1 could be 'Special attack' I can see this being much more useful, also the f12 on is annoying for a fairly obvious reason. Maybe having the ability to change the hot-keys to different keys for ease of use as the f(1-12) keys aren't exactly in an easily accessible place. I probably won't use them much :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Eh, I plan on ignoring their existance completly. I made it three years with clicking and I never had any problems. They may be useful for jad, but otherwise they have no huge advantages that I can see so far, especially not on a F2P world. [bleep] the law, they can eat my dick that's word to Pimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakitsym_Rose Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I hate them I use F12 to take Pictures for my gallery and that interferes completely with it by switching it to Music Book everytime I try to take a Pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salim123 Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 ya its pretty annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastyGangsta Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Well I use the inventory tab quite a lot- very handy. Also my friend is planning on using em for fightcaves :D Yeah hotkeys are really useful in fight caves. I still died though... I think i need something better then full rune... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayjest Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 I'll be honest and say that I didn't even know they existed. I swear that list wasn't there the first time I read the news... Goals to get my skills back up to a barely respectable level on the high scores: Currently going for Bone to Peaches spell. It's amazing how boring doing the same repetitive task is! Stupid MTA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latinoking Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 They should have left F12 out :evil: now I can't take screenshots I am Teh_King[My dA][My Last.FM][My Twitter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xstarfox33X Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Did u know, the control for run was already in the game before this update...but jagex said in the update they put control as run... just fyi, control key for run was already in game before this update =) dunno if u guys noticed or not Right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord_man Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 other people will use but i know i won't :P 99 FM Acheived on Friday December 26th 2008Click for my blog|Mass Effect Discussion Thread|Nation Creation/Create your own Country Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingkid Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 I never read the news. I didn't know they exsisted. Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, your commodity drops in value. [url=http://www.imagehosting.com][img]http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i773526_stingtag.gif[/img][/url] [quote name="Capone_Sabre"]People in the wilderness will [b]always[/b] insult you no matter what you do. Just ignore it and kill them.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatshepsutLecter Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 I don't really see a point in having them in this game. I am probably never going to use those. By this time in the game I am too used to clicking for it to be any easier to use the keys. I honestly think that clicking on the pictures is easier anyways. Besides, the area of my brain that would have been used to store which of the keys opens what can be put to better use. The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are the FBI.First Dragon Drop 5/6/2006 -Dragon Med from Bronze Dragon :DFirst Barrows Item From Chest 2/20/2007 - Verac's Brassard :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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