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wbino
wbino
Join Date 02/2008
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What's your weapon of choice? Mouse,Trackball..keyboard?

November 24, 2008 9:36:59 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I was wondering what my fellow gamers use to play Sins with. I use a G5 mouse and keyboard combo, but the long hours this game has me sucked in is killing my wrists. Anyone using a trackball w/ Sins or any other preferred preferals?

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EviliroN
Join Date 04/2008
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Reply #1 November 25, 2008 4:00:28 AM
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have G5 and love it. no pain

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Ambro_2
Join Date 10/2008
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Reply #2 November 25, 2008 6:09:58 AM
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Try a vertical mouse like the evoluent vertical mouse or the new microsoft vertical mouse if your getting wrist pain. Not sure if they work though as I havnt tried one yet.

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Reply #3 November 25, 2008 10:58:38 AM
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I like trackballs for games that don't require a lot of twitch input. I have mild repetitive stress issues, so I find myself playing more RTS games, and not so many FPS games these days.

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Reply #4 November 25, 2008 12:45:11 PM
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Usually a combo of keyboard and mouse. Keyboard for control groups and moving the camera and a laser mouse for everything else.

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Reply #5 November 25, 2008 1:16:21 PM
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[quote who="Lord_Mung" reply="3" id="1952478"]I like trackballs for games that don't require a lot of twitch input. I have mild repetitive stress issues, so I find myself playing more RTS games, and not so many FPS games these days.[

So Lord do you use the trackball w/ Sins? any issue's?

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Reply #6 November 25, 2008 1:28:32 PM
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Trackballs are great for gaming but you can't find cheap ones like they used to.  Good thing I bought  alot of them before they discontinued them.  You might be able to find them on Ebay rarely.  It's also great for RPGs.  http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/90506330_6a5f72f729.jpg   These Crystal Trackballs were found at CompUSA for $15.

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Reply #7 November 25, 2008 1:30:47 PM
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I use almost pure laser mouse.

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Dark_River
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Reply #8 November 25, 2008 1:48:08 PM
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Quoting LivingShadow,
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I use almost pure laser mouse.

ya same here, I tried a Trackball but really was hard to use. Felt like i had better control with a mouse. The best idea though to lose the wrist pains would be to just take a brake every know and then and stretch.

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Reply #9 December 11, 2008 10:44:23 PM
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[quote who="Lord_Mung" reply="3" id="1952478"]I like trackballs for games that don't require a lot of twitch input. I have mild repetitive stress issues, so I find myself playing more RTS games, and not so many FPS games these days.[

So Lord do you use the trackball w/ Sins? any issue's?

Absolutely. It works flawlessly.

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Reply #10 December 12, 2008 3:36:11 AM
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I play games so rarely that I never even bothered to buy any other peripherial crap.

X-718F + some standard KB and we're good. My wrists are too pr0 to take any casualties even if I devote a night for playing once a while.

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Reply #11 June 14, 2012 6:05:39 PM
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hey I also have a trackball but I for some reason can not figure out how to zoom in and out with it anybody want to help me out and tell me how to do that? seeing as zooming in on a single planet and out to the whole galaxy is kind of a cooler part of the game...

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