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Tab targeting was a thing from when I started pre-kunark. You couldn't change the keys, but you had tab targeting

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Originally Posted by Kinaki (Post 2972125)

As I said previously, Tabbing through npcs was at the very least Velious, if not classic; cycling through PCs was added during PoP (possibly as late as LDoN, but in NOWAY as late as your 2004 blurb). How do I know this? Because I played then and have distinct memories of trying it for the first time during the Gods phase of PoTime. That's why I say possibly as late as LDoN - because it was the last expansion a top tier guild would still be farming PoTime. This was PCs however; NPCs had long since been in game.

Your supposed evidence to the contrary does nothing but quote the ability to (re)assign hotkeys and queries by random people asking for help at <insert a random point in time>.

Despite my defense of the devs in making such changes, I really really remember it this way as well. The wording of the patch seems to be more focused on "you can now make ____ hotkey" more than "you can now cycle target NPC's".

I know my memory isn't perfect and its been a long time but this is a pretty common command to have been missing for basically the entire time I was playing. I have a hard time believing it stuck in my mind so much based only on the brief amount I still played in 2004 during which I only logged in to raid our weekly time clear and then left again.

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Originally Posted by Daldaen (Post 2972158)

See Secrets quote from the EQMac client which was the base game client from PoP. There was no Cycle NPC hotkey back then. You are mistaken.

It’s natural for memories that are nearly 18 years old to be faulty especially when you currently play P99 and mix in your current experiences with the memories from the past. This is why player memories aren’t used as evidence to change things in classicquest.

Wasn't the EQMac client a totally separate client actually? I mean maybe it had the same basic functions I understand, but technically it wasn't the same client right?

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Originally Posted by Deliverator (Post 2972174)

Tab targeting was a thing from when I started pre-kunark. You couldn't change the keys, but you had tab targeting

Yeah same way I remember, are we sure that patch didn't simply allow you to rebind the "hotkey" from tab to whatever you want?

I'm 100% certain that there was a system for targeting NPCs that did not require a mouse. I didn't target anything with my mouse from 1999-2004

I was a numpad afficionado. Only used the mouse when moving around; F7,F8, tab for everything else.

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Originally Posted by Deliverator (Post 2972199)

I'm 100% certain that there was a system for targeting NPCs that did not require a mouse. I didn't target anything with my mouse from 1999-2004

Yes, tab targeting (ie. target the closest NPC in your field of vision) was classic. Cycle targeting (ie. target the closest NPC in your field of vision, then switch to the next closest, then switch to ...) was not.

Allkahazam Post 2004

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I gotta say, the cylcing through targets is going to be real nice... I got on at work here just to play with it... can't wait to try it out in a dungeon :)

Allkahazam Post 2004

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I'm using this key now. Wow! one of the best things Soe has done in a long time.

This is great for slowing a big pile of mobs all clumped to gather.

It was a new feature, not simply allowing flexibility in the keystroke used. Your recollection is likely using F8 and repositioning to use F8, using /assist, using Tab, etc. But you simply could not cycle Target in Velious with a single hotkey like the Titanium client allows.

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Originally Posted by loramin (Post 2972213)

ding ding ding

Fair enough Dald, you win, I'm convinced.