The Infamous Right-Click

Right Clicking people should be added to Guild Wars

after you right click have a dandy list pop up that has a few options
1. Read User Created Bio:
for grouping purposes you can see what type of monk they are or whatnot, so there is non of that "man we need a healer" "well i thought you were a healer" "no im a smiter"
2. Read a Guild Bio made by the guild leader
3. Send a Whisper
4. Join
5. Trade

although these can be done other ways, it would be a whole lot better IMO to have it on a pop up list that is easy to access.

Good job! I like it alot! It would be good if it worked on their name too, in the chat or something like it anyway. Very good idea!

Seconded. So long as I didn't get to in the way of camera turning. For instance I go to turn my camera, but I accidentily click a person.

Make it so that even if you click a person, you can still "freewheel" the camera.

y not, since right click is the camera, have it hover ur mouse over their name/character and press soemthing like b for BIO and from in the bio it has what guild they are in, the skills they currently have set etc etc

Not the skills, that's not right. That's part of the surprise in PVP not knowing. Just the info they want to give, if't it's empty it's empty, but definitely not the skills unless they want that published. Sure knowing what monk is what is a nice feature but if everyone does it then where's the fun of the battle really? Strategy is easy with that kinda instant intel. Not so without it. hehehe Makes the whole challenge etc really nice. Imagine seeing some warrior spamming a group of spells, say you notice 6 and nothing else. You have to gamble if he's got a rez signet or not in your next move, especially with a relatively balanced battle. See, though I am not into PVP, I have done some and know how cool it is not to know and to have to adjust in the battle. It'd be boring PVP if everyone knew everyones skill set before they used em all.

ok i can agree with that, didnt think of that, maybe a user related part where the person can place something such as healer, tank, etc

i dont think skills should be shown, and all that is in the bio is what the character chooses to have, ie:

"my name is [Insert Name Here] and i am a monk and my main line is healing. i dont do much else but i make a usefull companion"

and of course as not to inerfere with the camera, you need to click on the person and then right-click.

hey, read this

Read the sticky threads.

I think it's unnecissary. You can already left click someone and then click the trade button and click them to join their party. It would also make the game feel like a glorifyed RuneScape.

I'm all for it, right click for RP bio, playing style, etc.

Right click is currently the most important button why are you trying to change it? Left click is more useless then Right Click in battle. Left click =! Circle Strafe.

That's right, I've completely forgotten what the current right click does.

Regardless, I wouldn't mind a way to see someone's self description.

i have never played runescape...

I just think you should be able to select them by clicking there name on the chat screen, and wisper them by double clicking.

Its a good idea, I'm definatly used to having this sort of thing. An inspect is always cool. IMO whats the point of having kick ass equipment if know one can see that you have it? Mabe thats just because I'm a show off, but I think most people enjoy looking at others gear.

i only care to know what lvl the person is currently at (in PVE) so that when searching for a companion to quest with, I can choose someone with a similar area.

It could simply be attached to the "trade" screen when you left click on someone (TOP MIDDLE) . War/Mon 6 .. and NOT above peoples heads in PVE, because then it will clutter things up.

If you guys want to have BIOS and your email and your sign, and etc...
I think it would change the game from, "here is some action, lets go battle" to something more...Oh I dunno.... fruity??

Sort of tangential to the right-clicking for whisper and finding groupies...

1) It would be nice if you could pull up a character list for the district you're in. It can be incredibly annoying to try and click on names while people are running around behind scenery in a highly-populated area.

2) It would be nice if clicking on an outgoing whisper defaulted your message the same way clicking on an incoming whisper did. I'm all for keyboarding, but it seemed odd to me to have half of that installed.

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i agree on the bio thing. After all you either make a PvP or RPG character... why should I have to serach for a biography posted on a forum or a website to view that characters background?

But other than that I fail to see much use to it really.

Great idea. But right-clicking should not be limited to other chars, as there are lots of other places I was right-clicking and expecting to see some options: Monsters, items, NPCs, etc.

For monsters, for example, you might have these options:
Attack alone
Group attack
NPC-only attack
Target only
Info (limited of course to some basic info, but yet enough to better plan a strategy)

You could also add monsters to a target cue, so that tab (or some other button) cycles between those in the cue only, and ignores other monsters on the map.

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Right click is for the camera, I don't want a stupid menu to come up everytime I am trying to strafe or turn my camera. Accidents happen that way.

/notsigned


nooo I struggle enough moving the camera running guild wars on bootcamp on a mac book (using right command key)

Right-click is for camera...

Good point.

This implementation needs to be done this way:

1) Have the option of disabling the feature in the controls configuration menu
2) Right-click on underlined / specific interface items brings up the menu
3) Right-click elsewhere controls the camera

The distinction could also be done as:
Right-click to open menu, then click again on menu item
Right-hold & drag for camera control

Humble ideas. Unfortunately, there's a reason why they aren't added.

Bio abuse:
#1 <Player-name>: Selling stuff, check my bio. Upon checking the bio, you read: "Your momma is a @#$@#" over and over.

#2 <Player-name>: Selling stuff, check bio. The bio reads: "Selling GW accounts, 100k each. WTB: Prophecies only account, 100k"

#3 <Player-name>: Starting group, must have build, attributes listed in bio.

The right-click, omni-present in most other MMOs:
Right click breaks the UI as it is. It's a bit hard to describe, but current UI isn't context sensitive. Any action is performed on selected target, regardless of how it's selected, or how it's activated. Right-click locks the target and UI while it's displaying the menu. This is the reason why there's no pull-down menus outside of other windows. They cause some really annoying and not entirely solvable usability issues. This could be considered a technical issue, and not having it is a good thing, as lots of books have been written on user interfaces, and none so far has managed to solve this problem.

The rest would fit well:
Sending a whisper is already done by clicking on a persons name in chat. It would be very useful to add /invite and /trade options alongside whisper. Especially, since most of the time you'll be responding to either someone LFG or someone WTB/WTS in chat.