New gaming experience!

[zyxstand]

Just imagine the new gaming experience you would get if you play with two mice instead of one.  In soldat, the left mouse would control movement and the right would control combat.  With this configuration (see below) you would be able to fly toward a point (using your jets) that is completely independent from your aiming direction.

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Analysis:
Most of you will probably not have thought about this but:
The problem with this is that the screen as it currently is has center exactly between the (aiming) mouse cursor and the player.  That would throw your directional mouse cursor off quit a bit.  For that the solution would come to have a separate, circular mini-hub in the corner of the screen to which the movement mouse cursor is bounded.  That way, your direction will always be the relative direction from the hub's center to the mouse.  Here's a picture:

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comments?

[Sethamundo]

Dude, no offence but I don't like this idea at all, would be incredibly hard to get used to.
Sorry man, but I don't support it.

[zyxstand]

in general, don't you like the idea of having two mice for your computer?  The true answer is yes, but many will not like it because they're too go***mned lazy to get used to a new environment.  With no change nothing good can happen.  In the future when we will have two mice, this idea would be marvelous!

[bja888]

Every single one of my fingures on my right hand has 1 or 2 buttons assigned to it. And I still wish I had more fingures. I dont think putting everything on the mouse is going to make me faster.

[Graham]

Ill stick to my two buttons and a scroll wheel

[MofoNofo]

Awesome. I'd use that if 2 mouses could work on my computer at one time (and if i could buy one of those hubs)

[UGK]

I dont like this idea at all...

[Shmack.]

Yeah! Lets all go out and buy these 2 mouses to play this game, then get used to it, which will take ages! What a great idea!


This will totoally mess up the game. You would need good hand and eye coordination, which most people don't have. This idea will not be put in, trust me.

[zyxstand]

This idea wasn't so much about soldat as it was about the concept of having two mice.  Anyways i was just trying to make you imagine what it would be like to have two mice operating in windows.  If I wanted this to be implemented I would have posted it in the game improvement section.

Btw flab, why don't you censor his flaming?

[Shmack.]

Imagine? Pfft. That takes effort.

My would we want to imagine such a terrible thing?

[kingkitty]

What we need people are left handed mouses

[T-Bone]

i like it as it is....i am horrible using my left hand on lefty mouses. King kitty, go to staples

[xurich]

This seems a little far out there. I couldn't imagine trying to use Windows, let alone play Soldat, with two mice. I'm too emotionally attached to my keyboard. I will never let go.

[bja888]

By the way... it doesn't matter how many mice you plug in. There is only one pointer. I tried like 4+ years ago.

[Keron Cyst]

... In the future when we will have two mice, this idea would be marvelous!

Even if two pointers showed, I still cannot envision any future with two mice. It's not practical, at all.

[X-Rayz]

No way. Why get two mouses and get used to this weird as configuration if theres a perfectly good thing here? Just the thought of trying to do this...makes my head hurt.

[Blues]

Ehh, I don't approve of this.

[T-Bone]

ya, it is definatly to comlicated....noone could adjust to this. i mean, i geuss you could, but i like mouse+keyboard the best

[CheeSeMan.]

ill stick to my old mouse thank you very much!

[SDFilm]

Two mouses!?? But...but...i'll be moving my hands about like somekind of battlemech driver     No, just no.

I'll stick to the good old mouse'n'keyboard