Settlers and RSI (suggestions for game improvements)

[cookingfat]

Hello Settlers!

I love playing TSO, but I also suffer from RSI (repetitive strain injury). First of all, there are already some features in the game that actually do help, such as jumping to sectors on the island using number pad, being able to pin the building menu and other keyboard shortcuts like H for mayors house, P for provision house and B for barracks.

There are however, a lot of things in the game that are indeed repetitive, and could easily be improved to make it more bearable for us.

I have a few suggestions for BB to improve the game for everyone, especially RSI sufferers.
These are the tasks in the game I sometimes find painful >

1. Training troops in the barracks. 25 at a time is just not enough and to be honest, it's just plain annoying. if I need to make 1000R, that will take me 40 slides and 80 clicks.

so I would suggest being able to select whether you make 25, 50, 100 or 200 troops at a time. like add 4 radio buttons in the barracks or something. There should in addition to this be some way to cancel current order.

2. Making Fish Food and Musk Deer Fragrance. No player will use the prov house to make 1 order of 100 fish food. Come on now BB, lets sort this out and increase it. I like to make a lot of fish food at a time, but if I make 200k of fish food that is 80 slides and 160 clicks.

Just let us make more at a time please.

3. Buff notification emails. This is probably the most annoying for me. many players swap 100+ baskets at once, so this, twice a day is adding another 200 clicks deleting emails. not to mention the annoying bug where you keep getting messages saying these items have already been added to star menu (why does these even happen?).

Just let us disable buff notification emails altogether if we want to. Or have a better mailbox that lets you delete all messages in your inbox.

4. Assigning troops to generals. Sliding bars are annoying for me, you have to be really precise. Can't we just type in a box what troops to add, like in the trade office? One thing I would really like the have is a button that will empty a general and a button that will empty all generals. Or just a new way to manage generals and their troops altogether on one screen or something.



I know some of these suggestions have been raised already, but I wanted to put these together as they relate to RSI. Some feedback would be nice too.

[Jove]

Amen, cookingfat!

[gajodoporto]

I agree with all of ´em.

1. since im 50, I ´ve stopped adventures. lucky me.
2. I dont use any single mine or refills. I play this game for a long time now, I´m sick of this number 2
3. I actually buff first then return to avoid that. It is really boring.
4. Agree. its needed!

Since the game/developers dont show us where this game is going, and like I said in guild chat, I will just delete everything and leave only mayors house/prov. house/ barracks in S1, and write with roads "THE END".

Why do I need 7 buildings to do nothing? Like I said I dont use mines! Why not "at least" wait more months if needed and release for all 3 specialists?
Why not more levels?
Why not more adventures? (lvl 50, dont be funny BB...cause its not anymore)
More premium stuff if any

Anyway im going off-topic.

plus 1 cooking. gl

[Torquemarda]

1 and 2 are soooo annoying at the moment, would love ot see an improvement here.
How about a number and a multiplier i.e. I want to create 20 stacks of 2500 fish food

[Cully]

I dont have RSI but I do have a shoulder injury that affects one arm so yes to anything that makes it less painful

[profa85]

1. I just wanted to write this on the increase of Fish Food and Musk Deer Fragrance. it's so annoying when making 100-200k fish wood. Do it as "Wayfaring Settler" - "Traveller Family" - "Retired Bandits" or something like that.
2. Change the text color of whisper chat from purple to something brighter color, I barely see to read.
3. Add one more row to star menu.
4. When you click on mine(copper, iron, coal, gold) and open his window, add remaining time until the destruction of mines.
5. And, yes, recruits... As the highest-made item from the Barracks I think it should increase the possibility of production.
6. Keyboard shortcut for attack in generals (like H, P and B on main island). (e.x. Click on general then A on keyboard and finally click on attacking target). Maybe pin number shortcuts to generals and then I know which general is number 1, 2 and so on. Then I just need to be focused on attacking camps, zoom to it and click 1 (general) then A (attack) on keybord and just with mouse on attacking camp. I think its faster and easier.

[Peajay]

you missed the repetition of adding all adventure loot from the star menu to the mayor's house. even doing this every few days is a lot of clicks for an active player.