All,
I had a conversation with some players in Global chat about two days ago and was surprised how many people were unaware of the native (not client made macros) key bindings in Glitch. When myself and someone, who's name I forget, started telling people that you can do about 90% of your actions (excluding cooking, crystalizing and a few others) JUST with keyboard commands, people got very interested.
Regardless of whether this was by design or for people internally developing the game, I want to thank the TS group for including these awesome bindings and it just further proves these guys know what they're doing as keybinding in Action script requires a minimum of 8 lines of code PER key command and is quickly becoming a lost art, so I applaud them for putting in the extra efforts on this.
The truth is, using the keyboard is faster that point click. Once you remember them, "grinding" the game itself to do the mundane things becomes easier (NOTE: Grinding refers to the process of leveling, not referring to refining or crushing). As such, I'd like the devs or any other users or devs/ga's to share their knowledge to what they know on key commands and perhaps we can build a wiki entry on this.
So, here's my list:
Top Row 1 key: Surprised (Same as :O )
Top Row 2 key: Mad (Same as :( )
Top Row 3 key: Smile (same as LOL, :) or hehe)
Top Row 4 key: Sleep / Return from sleep
L key: Log/Quest Log open
B key: Backpack/Bag open
F key: Friendly Rock open
W key: Opens menu on highlighted item
M key: Map open Docked/Stationary
TAB key: Undocked/Unsticky Map popup
ESC key: Unselect/Back out of menu
Arrow keys:(In help Dialog): Walking OR move highligher in personal bags / own objects list
WSDA keys: (In help Dialog): Forward, Back, Left, Right walk
SPACE key: (In help Dialog): Jump / Levitate
SHIFT + ENTER keys: Toggle between current location and bags / items below
CTRL + ENTER keys: Toggle between gameplay and Chat windows
ENTER key:Select; Open Bag, Select item, Mine, Talk to, Pet, Water, Harvest, Nibble, Feed, Milk, Harvest etc.
Any others or ones that are a bit off from above?
Final note on this... Keyboard strokes Vs. Mouse Over Point/ Click is a user preference. Some people just prefer using the mouse and that's just fine. Being that I am an avid UNIX geek of 20 years, I just prefer the keyboard. So, please don't assume I am putting anyone down by saying that the keyboard is faster as it was inferred to based on personal preference.
Updated August 26, 2011