Ok, let's gab on this. What the heck.
Nobody wants folks playing Chaos more than me. Maybe just as much, but not more than me. I want players big time.
But I am also of the belief that you have to draw a line somewhere. We must not try to implement every possible option, scenario, choice, and preference into one mod. It is possible to try and make everyone happy, and end up making noone happy.
There are going to be
plenty of key binds and GUI options and INI options and the like by the time we are done with this mod. It is my opinion, that we need to be very selective when thinking of adding anything even remotely like this.
And there are plenty of other examples here and in dev forums, of suggested options and choices and tabs and menus. So if someone was to next say, "but this is just a little thing", that doesn't cut it either. Add up all the little things, and you got one big ball of wax. An option for this, a choice for that. An ini setting here, GUI checkbox there.
It can become too much. It can become an unneccarily overly cumbersome place. Each and every option needs to be worthy.
And while I want many more players, even I put limits on what I'm willing to do to get them. For example, would I stop playing while I'm having fun with my friends, to teach some new player who didn't even take the time to read the manual, how to bind a grapple? You bet I would! I've been doing it for years.
But I have also seen many examples over the years, where I just shrug my head and walk away. And this is one of them.
And then there's the poor idiot saps who can't figure out how to use a scrollbar.
It's my Darwinian theory of gamers. If you can't work a scrollbar, then you didn't make the cut. You are the wildebeest in the nature movies that gets separated from the herd at the river, and pulled by your head into the muddy water by some big arsed croc. Natural selection processes at work there.
If you cannot bind a key with a GUI, you probaly aren't going to have much luck with the game anyway, nor enjoy it. I'm not stressing these folks.
Saying "Hit tab" or "Hit I" is much easier than saying "Hit escape, click settings, click the controls tab, and scroll down all the way down to the chaos keybinds.
Yeah, but teach a croc to fish...
But all of the above was just for fun. Bottom line is that I do not support designing the mod for one time users at a convention somewhere. Nor do I support designing it for folks who can't find their own feet. If we have to live by the dimmest among us, it's gonna suck. The average newbie gamer can easily figure out how to do this, and that's all we need, or should do.
Ever see those stickers on the packages of pigs feet (and other pieces of carcass) at the meat market, that say "cook before eating"? I have, and we should not be using those either, as it's getting in the way of natural selection. Sometimes you just gotta let the croc take 'em.
