How do you play POTCO?

[Edward Edgemenace]

Great survey Chris. Tremendous insight, here. Thank you.

[Tuefenhandel]

I am ambidexterous (sp?) so I actually end up doing a little of everything, albeit with the mouse in either right or left hand. I usually end up swapping the mouse back and forth depending on hand cramps, or how much time I spent on the computer at work that day. The only time I am right hand mouse exclusive is when using a trackball, which got ditched during the last relocation.

Cannonering is strictly mouse with right button, same for pistol and most aiming functions.

Otherwise it's left hand mouse with arrows, or right hand mouse with WASD. Fire control is almost always <cntrl> using the thumb with whichever hand is on the keys. Not much for left mouse button firing.

Confusing, eh?

Two favorite ambidexterous quotes: (1) I'd give me right arm to be ambidexterous. (2) Being ambidexterous means not being able to do anything with either hand.

[League]

I tried to use the left for sailing with the 6 (all 6) keyboard letter controls while using the mouse to just click the buttons, where I can pan if I need to. Tough as of yet, but I may try more with it.

[Edward Edgemenace]

In Cuba today, getting a mess of gators, I found myself using WASD (mainly W) instead of autorun (since I had to keep turning it off.) Because it was a pistol exercise, I was using mouse exclusively to aim. I'll have to remember this as a training area, for brain-WASD conditioning.

[edwardburnskull]

neither I use the arrow keys and F1, F2, etc. with my right hand. and mouse for attacks and stuff with my left.

[Ghostcannon]

I used mostly WASD and a wireless optical mouse since I use a laptop. But something I have noticed, specially for Pistol...you can shoot faster rounds by using CTRL and Left Mouse Button, consecutively. It's a "bang-bang-bang" instead of a "bang ... bang ... bang" if one uses only one triggering button/key. The delay might be a second shorter.

[Jack Sharkbane]

I do #2, cuz that way I can reach the space bar and shift key, and so I have an open hand fer me mouse.