This isn't possible at the moment, sorry.

Would you want double-click to select:
* All owned units of type on-screen at current zoom level?
* All owned units of type in the current gravity well?
* All owned units of type, period?

That third option feels to me like it would be counter-intuitive. Do you really want to grab all your ships off their picket lines across the solar system to race to the other end of it for a particular battle?

To me, the second option seems most useful; though there's a twisted sense of logic to the first as well (less intuitive, more flexible).

The Report Dialogs are another area where mouse implementation feels primitive, and I dare say even Hackey.

This feature is a very prominent, very power interface element... but it REQUIRES keyboard input to use. How many times have I had a glass of water in my hand and been mousing around my empire to see a report come up and go "oh, lets check it out." Go down there, fumble around with left click, right click, middle click... realize I can't get where I want to go without putting my water down and say "oh never mind." I realize it's a nitpick, but little things like this add up and make the game feel clunky rather than elegant. Besides, the game is supposed to be a slower paced, more leisurely experience. Why the heck shouldn't I be able to play it with a drink in one hand? I mean I can play DoW (the most twitchy RTS there is) using only the mouse... but not SINS?!

Right now, the report dialogs require keyboard input, and they only use 2 of perhaps 7, maybe more, different inputs available from the mouse.

Here's a solution to the report dialogs that would feel more sleek, modern, and less "hacked."

Right Click on a dialog takes you there.
Double Left Click on a dialog takes you there too... because people double click on things expecting it to do something.

Single left click on dialog will select the dialog box, at which point you can use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down the the recent event list. While selected, you may right click the dialog box to go to the event, or left click it again to deselect. (this does not have to interfere with your current unit selection)


Left-Clicking and Right-Clicking to scroll through a list?! It just feels so crude, especially when my mousewheel is sitting right there. The only justification I can think of for avoiding the mousewheel is because left and right click is easier to program... there's a word for these kinds of decisions.


I love the game, but I am beginning to lose patience for these, what I percieve to be, less than thoughtful interface decisions that fail to take into account standard software interaction conventions.



EDIT: I don't mean to be a jerk about such things. Ironclad and Stardock have done such a great job designing new interface innovations that seeing them drop the ball on such rudimentary things like effective mouse implementation really chaps my hide. And the fact that I know you're listening makes me even more prone to speak my mind and tell you what I really think. Thanks for listening. Do you think the mod tools will be capable of implementing some of these things?

I too would like the MMB and RMB camera functionality switchable. I keep pressing MMB in thoughts of rotation and RMB in attempts to slide and I keep getting a rude awakening Its not all bad though, I typically get to appreciate the pretty engine with smooth camera movement. I simply love the engine overall.

I think the 1st one should be for double clicking and the 2nd for ALT+clicking ^^. Or the other way around, whatever suits best. I would say that selecting all units in a gravity well is for manouvering out from the gravity well, while selecting on screen could be used for battles, not sure though, and if not then double clikcing should definitely be selecting all units in gravity well. ^^

I'd just like to chime in with my agreement that the inability to change mouse settings in any way is really frustrating.

I just found this topic and there is a way to change the mouse buttons. In the file C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting\uimappings.setting is an area that looks like this:

CURSOR_BUTTON_0
NumMappings 1
Mapping
Device "MOUSE_BUTTONS"
DeviceInputID 0
isAltDown FALSE
isCtrlDown FALSE
isShiftDown FALSE
CURSOR_BUTTON_1
NumMappings 1
Mapping
Device "MOUSE_BUTTONS"
DeviceInputID 1
isAltDown FALSE
isCtrlDown FALSE
isShiftDown FALSE
CURSOR_BUTTON_2
NumMappings 1
Mapping
Device "MOUSE_BUTTONS"
DeviceInputID 2
isAltDown FALSE
isCtrlDown FALSE
isShiftDown FALSE



The important part is "DeviceInputID" 0 = left, 1 = right and 2 = middle so by changing those you change how the game responds to those inputs.

The back and forward buttons are probably DeviceInputIDs 4 and 5. That will let them work like the scroll wheel when you click it like a button. However, scrolling is done differently and I don't think you can remap buttons to act like the scroll wheel but there are zoom in/out hot keys.