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I'm visually impaired too, though to a lesser degree, I would guess. I was just thinking of starting a thread for asking GW to remember to make their game accessible to people with visual and other issues that can make a game too difficult or even impossible for some.
In my case, I'm asking to make the UI uncluttered and moddable. Allow fonts to be resizable, let us put light text over a dark background, and even add voiceovers where possible. Make action icons clear and simple rather than pictures shrunk down to the point that their just a garbled mess. Better yet, give a few different styles of icons and other UI elements for us to pick from.
AbleGamers is an advocacy organization that seeks to make games more accessible to gamers who have disabilities. I think GW could pledge to work with them to develop accessibility options and they could promote Pathfinder Online on their site in order to help boost the Kickstarter.
Thanks!
~K~
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In the goblinworks blog «The action bar also corresponds to hotkeys. The first 10 slots correspond to the number keys 1–10. The second 10 slots correspond to the function keys F1–F10. Of course, we anticipate that you'll be able to customize these keybindings if you don't want to use these defaults. And you'll also be able to activate these actions by clicking the action bar with your mouse pointer.»
https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20121024
I don't understand. what is auto-follow?
In my case, I'm asking to make the UI uncluttered and moddable. Allow fonts to be resizable, let us put light text over a dark background, and even add voiceovers where possible. Make action icons clear and simple rather than pictures shrunk down to the point that their just a garbled mess. Better yet, give a few different styles of icons and other UI elements for us to pick from.
Yes, please, especially the resizable fonts and light text/dark background! I have chronic corneal dystrophy, and these two options alone would make the UI much easier to read.
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Its also used by people that Multi-box, and by some bots.
I think it should be added, but it would be nice if there was someway to defeat bots using it.
Disincluding features that make a game accessible to more players, just because someone will figure out a way to abuse it, is not only a d!@#-move, it's a lost cause. Automation will happen. Design in such a way that it either doesn't produce valuable results, or it doesn't disturb regular players. Beyond that, defeating bots is up to the players, not the game. A player at a keyboard is creative; a bot isn't. Abuse their scripting to mess with them, preferably to your own advantage. You do it all the time when the bot is controlled by the server, and in a PVP environment, it's even easier to make someone's bot your content.
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I think auto-follow on group members should be perfect, in that it's impossible to fall off a cliff if the person I'm auto-following didn't fall. Or if my target jumps over a fence, I should do so as well. It should be impossible for me to get separated from my auto-follow target if they're a group member.
I think auto-follow on hostiles should be the standard auto-follow we see in most games, where if my target hops over a fence and I don't just at the right time, I get stuck. I also think that auto-following hostiles should require you to maintain them as your target, and it should be easy to "lose" someone by ducking around a tree, or some other object that breaks line-of-sight.
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Disincluding features that make a game accessible to more players, just because someone will figure out a way to abuse it, is not only a d!@#-move, it's a lost cause. Automation will happen. Design in such a way that it either doesn't produce valuable results, or it doesn't disturb regular players. Beyond that, defeating bots is up to the players, not the game. A player at a keyboard is creative; a bot isn't. Abuse their scripting to mess with them, preferably to your own advantage. You do it all the time when the bot is controlled by the server, and in a PVP environment, it's even easier to make someone's bot your content.Its also used by people that Multi-box, and by some bots.
I think it should be added, but it would be nice if there was someway to defeat bots using it.
I do think auto follow should be included, really. Just maybe it should randomly drop so that people will have to pay attention. However since that would be a pain for real players maybe something that makes you have to hit different keyboard buttons to keep the link alive.
Yeah I know its an arms race between botters and the rest of us.
I'm sure that Goblinworks, and the player base at large, will ensure that legitimate functions are added. I see no reason why this wouldn't be the case.
As for 'botters', we have an in-game solution. Assassination contracts. Shadow Haven will be more than willing to fulfill any and all contracts to eliminate pesky, vacant-minded characters from the world.
I don't think that Tetrix's objection is predicated on the claim that it makes things easier for people in another game, but rather that it is a feature commonly exploited by those who run 'bot farms' for such things as the real money trading of in-game coin, as an example.
Unfortunately, there isn't much that can be done about it rather than take matters into our own hands. Report suspected bots, and if in a lawless area, smack them around the head and take their stuff.