Using stairs should use just 1 key


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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 04:11

Using stairs should use just 1 key

Instead of "go upstairs" and "go downstair" commands there should be just one "use stairs" command.
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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 04:22

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

No! I really like needing to say explicitly "I want to go down to Vaults:5" or whatever. My brain farts sometimes and I'll stand on a downstair and press "<" and Crawl will be all "no you can't do that" and I say "whew I didn't want to go down anyhow."
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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 04:30

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

no

keeping it on two keys is a very useful safeguard against accidentally hitting the key twice and going back on accident

this is very comforting to have online where you may not be sure if the game is just being slow to load the next floor or if your keypress didn't go through

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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 05:13

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

ok.
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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 05:34

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

when i read the title i thought maybe it meant crawl should have items called keys, that you can use to go upstairs a limited number of times, which sounds cool

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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 07:15

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

Hey, look! Another problem that's solved by removing upstairs!
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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 07:57

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

I'd like the default keys not to require shift

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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 11:38

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

There's also the rather intuitive X + < and X + > to find upstairs and downstairs, which I use almost as much as > and <. If the action were only done with <, it wouldn't be that intuitive anymore.
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Post Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 15:36

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

Nah.

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