MSQ Difficulty and Exclusion

[Eraden]

Ah, that's right! We did have this discussion earlier in the thread, I forgot; I mentioned that my father has Parkinson's -- progressed to the point that he's developing cognitive issues, which is depressing and terrifying -- and that I'm considered high-risk myself due to that family history.

(Apologies for forgetting. My own challenge is chronic migraines, and while my medication works very well, it also is a once-a-month medication that lasts just over three weeks. I get to next take it on the 14th; as you might guess, my brain is presently reduced to tapioca and my world is pain for the next four days. Frankly, it's a miracle I can compose coherent posts; I'm functioning on caffeine, painkiller, and possibly spite.)



Out of idle curiosity, do you play with a controller, or a keyboard/mouse?

I know from helping my father that the tremors/shakes, at least as regards hands, are not actually that different in nature from the nerve damage my friend Bryan had; I thus wonder whether the issue you're having is similar -- e.g., not that you can't see what you need to do, just that it's really hard to hit the correct keys with a hand tremor -- and so whether the solution we worked on for him might not also help in your scenario.

As I touched on in a past post, the solution we came up with in his case was a program that he could run that mapped multiple keys on the keyboard to a single key; for instance, taking 'Q', 'W', and 'E' and mapping all of them to 'W' so he could more reliably move forward, etc. We basically just made a keyboard map of regions of the keyboard, and mapped a given set of keys -- usually about six, two rows of three each -- to the keys he was likely to need to use.

Now, we never got past the experimental phase before he died of flu complications (side note: get your flu shots, and if you run a high fever go to the damn hospital); I lacked the heart to finish the project after that, and tossed the code out there into the wild for someone else to use.

Still, the early experiments had been promising, and now I wonder if the same sort of tool might not also help in the case of things like Parkinson's. Obviously it wouldn't be a perfect solution, but...

I play with a keyboard and mouse. My shaking, when it gets really bad, makes it so that pressing the proper key or mouse button becomes enormously difficult ( I either miss, press a nearby wrong key by mistake, or press the key/mouse button multiple times). The best option for me that I have found is to wait for a period where my condition is not flaring so bad and I have mentally prepared for each step. Extended periods of combat though, always tend to overwhelm me as there is just so much that I can handle before my brain begins to go haywire. This is why I rarely engage in raid content and I NEVER engage in Savage mode. I don't mind missing these however, as I still get to enjoy the storyline.

Addendum: You need not apologize for forgetting. You were polite and asked for clarification. I really appreciate that. As for your descriptions of what you do as a game developer, I find that quite fascinating. It seems like a very complicated profession!

[ZedxKayn]

I play with a keyboard and mouse. My shaking, when it gets really bad, makes it so that pressing the proper key or mouse button becomes enormously difficult ( I either miss, press a nearby wrong key by mistake, or press the key/mouse button multiple times). The best option for me that I have found is to wait for a period where my condition is not flaring so bad and I have mentally prepared for each step. Extended periods of combat though, always tend to overwhelm me as there is just so much that I can handle before my brain begins to go haywire. This is why I rarely engage in raid content and I NEVER engage in Savage mode. I don't mind missing these however, as I still get to enjoy the storyline.

If you haven't tried a controller yet, it might be worth a shot, I think with the ergonomics and how spread apart the buttons tend to be, it might be easier.