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Joined: Saturday, 5th March 2011, 06:29
Keyboard mapping
Then what happens, is I forget the key that I've just assigned my newly-memorised spell to. So I type z? and see an alpabetically-ordered list of spells which in no way corresponds to the order in my head in which the spells reside.
My main suggestion here would be to (obviously only in Tiles version) actually display a diagram of the keyboard, with each spell's icon displayed on the key to which it's mapped. This kind of links to an item I read in the Usability Report where they pointed out how keyboards are laid out differently in various countries. By setting up this feature it could be used for all instances where keys need to be remapped.
My second suggestion (which I think less likely) would be to map spells automatically across the keyboard, instead of alphabetically, so asdfghjkl; for the first 10 spells, then either qwertyuiop or zxcvbnm for the next bunch. I don't think this is realistic because it'd obviously mess up keys that players might be used to.