[Suggestion] Change mouse cursor

I really like the idea of a feather shaped mouse cursor (is that it?), but i find it very difficult to click where i want to. I know you can choose to use a hardware cursor but i think it's great to have a customized one, especially in a game as immersive as this one.

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Using the feather (or whatever) mouse cursor gives me some problems as well, I've send my units to the wrong spot on more than one occasion already. It might be that the view on the cloth-map has also something to do with this. Is there a way to change the cloth-map view to a more top-down view?

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Center Mouse button will allow you to rotate the map.

I think the while "misclick" thing can be solved pretty easily: make the tip of the quill pen a different color than the rest, or put a little "sparkly" or "shiny" on it. Then the player's eye will be drawn to that part of the cursor and they'll know "Ah, here's the part that does stuff".

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In the case of selecting a target location on the map (for movement or whatever else), it would help if the location under the cursor had some highlighting or outlining.  Less importantly, the type and style of highlighting could be selected in the options.

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Quoting Nezic, reply 3
In the case of selecting a target location on the map (for movement or whatever else), it would help if the location under the cursor had some highlighting or outlining.  Less importantly, the type and style of highlighting could be selected in the options.
End of Nezic's quote

Yes, exactly. I was just thinking this myself. A highlight under cursor would be very helpful. Nezic, you should make an "official" suggestion thread for this.

Reply #6 Top

The quill is definitely not a good cursor because it has two pointed ends at it's corners. Maybe fanning out the feather end of it so the point isn't there would make it better.

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I like the design, although Tourresh is right - it could do with touching up a bit IMO.  There are problems with selection depending on the angle of the camera, this is nothing to do with the design of the mouse though.

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I also neglected to mention that when I asked someone nearby what they thought the cursor was they said "a chili pepper". I can't look at it now without seeing a pepper.