Harain
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ORIGINAL: michaelm That was not the purpose of the 'space' key. It didn't work on a message-by-message basis. In PBEM mode it had no function. It may have had the unintentional effect of seeming to speed up the message because the call out and return. Pressing the space key will toggle between fast and the player's message delay setting (if over .5 secs). Under .5, I don't think it does anything. Maybe it was unintentional, but it DID speed up the current message in AI games, and it was a much too useful feature (albeit unintentional) to just scrap. I got used to having the message delay at 1 second, in order to have time to read it and locate it on the map, and, if not interested, I could just press Space (instant bypass of current message), and read the next message. Also, if there was a bunch of messages I wanted to ignore, I could press ESC, and while the messages were scrolling, the Space key had the added bonus of STOPPING the ESC scrolling of messages. It was PERFECT. Now my options are: - keep the message delay at 1 second and get bored silly. I can also use the ESC key here, but have no way of stopping the fast scrolling, like I did with the old Space key. - have them at 0.5 and miss most of what the messages say - not see any message at all (using the new Space function), which I would NEVER do, I like my messages Again, I can understand you changing the space key function to accomodate PBEM players, but PLEASE give us (me) a key that does what the Space key used to do. Please.....
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