Problem
When I make rapid camera adjustments with my right mouse button, I run the risk of not moving my mouse enough between clicks and accidentally changing my target. In addition, I can also click the party list when I mean to click the background since the party list extends farther right than it seems at times. Yes, I do sometimes click quite frequently in battle to make small adjustments instead of holding the button down. It's very hard for me to change that. While this is not an accessibility issue for me, it would qualify as one for people with certain motor disabilities.
This can, for example, cause me to heal the wrong person. It can also cause me to stop rolling my GCD until I realize I've untargetted the enemy.
I encounter this very regularly, at least once per day. The really bad thing about this is that while it technically is my fault if I don't move the mouse at all in the middle of making small camera adjustments, it feels like I'm fighting the game's controls whenever this happens. A wasted heal or some wasted damage is bad enough, but somebody dying because I healed the wrong person feels extra bad.
Suggestion
Add an option that allows me to use my right mouse button for effectively camera purposes only, no targetting. By default, the option is off to preserve existing behaviour.
In more detail, with the option enabled:
And some notes:
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When I make rapid camera adjustments with my right mouse button, I run the risk of not moving my mouse enough between clicks and accidentally changing my target. In addition, I can also click the party list when I mean to click the background since the party list extends farther right than it seems at times. Yes, I do sometimes click quite frequently in battle to make small adjustments instead of holding the button down. It's very hard for me to change that. While this is not an accessibility issue for me, it would qualify as one for people with certain motor disabilities.
This can, for example, cause me to heal the wrong person. It can also cause me to stop rolling my GCD until I realize I've untargetted the enemy.
I encounter this very regularly, at least once per day. The really bad thing about this is that while it technically is my fault if I don't move the mouse at all in the middle of making small camera adjustments, it feels like I'm fighting the game's controls whenever this happens. A wasted heal or some wasted damage is bad enough, but somebody dying because I healed the wrong person feels extra bad.
Suggestion
Add an option that allows me to use my right mouse button for effectively camera purposes only, no targetting. By default, the option is off to preserve existing behaviour.
In more detail, with the option enabled:
- Right-clicking a player on the field does nothing, even outside of battle. It would be fine to keep existing behaviour outside of battle, but it's more work.
- Right-clicking an enemy on the field does nothing.
- Right-clicking an entry in the party or enemy list does nothing.
- Right-clicking the target info or focus target info does nothing.
- Right-clicking an interactable object in the field works the same as today. Accidentally clicking an object is way more unlikely.
- Right-clicking an NPC works the same as today. These two should eliminate a special case of NPCs and objects in battle vs. out of battle.
- In all of the above cases, holding the right mouse button and moving the mouse adjusts the camera.
And some notes:
- There is no shortcut to target+auto-attack an enemy with this option enabled. I believe it's already possible to make a macro to shortcut this.
- Anyone who does not want this behaviour does not need to do anything; the option is off by default. The behaviour with the option off is identical to today.
- My suggested location for this setting is Character Configuration → Control Settings → Mouse → Mouse Targeting. I don't have a particularly good idea for wording consistency with the other settings here.
- Perhaps there's also interest in a similar option for left-clicking instead of right-clicking. I don't know if that's something people want.
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