Safer "do you really want to do this" prompts
issueid=4895 08-14-2017 11:44 PM
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Safer "do you really want to do this" prompts
A mere 'y' as prompt can be problematic for misclicks or if playing with "vi-keys"-based setups

Hi.
So currently, there are various prompts for doing (potentially) stupid things like entering water, attacking peacefuls, etc. All that is needed to dismiss them and do the action is to press y. This can be pretty easy to misclick, but worse -- it greatly hampers play with a "vi-keys"-like controls setup. I just lost a somewhat promising character start when wandering out of the starting village when moving northwest with 'y' too fast, not noticing that suddenly a friendly was blocking my way, and thus attacking him, promptly surrounding me and killing my char.

3 solutions, from 'worst' but probably easiest implementation, to best/hardest:

1: Make the prompts require a capital Y, which is harder to mistype.
2: Force you to type 'yes' to really perform the action
3: Don't perform the action at all unless you use a special prefix -- for example "move", "northwest", or "fight", "east".

Regardless of what is done, it would be most practical for existing players if this was a configurable setting. What would make it better even is if you can also configure to don't actually prompt.
Issue Details
Issue Number 4895
Issue Type Feature
Project ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Category All
Status Suggested
Priority Unknown
Suggested Version ADOM r59
Implemented Version (none)
Milestone "Ease of Use" UI
Votes for this feature 6
Votes against this feature 2
Assigned Users (none)
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08-22-2017 01:01 PM
Issue Changed by jt
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