[G] TheCore - Advanced Keyboard Layout - Page 395

1. First to be 100% sure that we're on the same page: Ctrl+Shift is pressed by fat-fingering with your thumb in the most comfortable way.
   In 1.0, modifiers were given the following purposes for Terran:
   

   No-mod      Abilities + Control Group-recall
   Shift       Ability-queueing + Camera-recall
   Ctrl        Add to Control Group
   Ctrl+Shift  Create Control Group
   Alt         Create Camera

   
   In 2.0 Cam-recall and Control Group Create swapped modifiers for the following reasons
   
   • The no-mod and shift-modifier is partially used up by abilities. The keys where Shift+key does not conflict with abilities are the keys where no-mod+key recalls a Control Group.
     
   • Control Group Create is, for consistency, on the same key as Control Group Recall, therefore it is not bothered by the above contraint;
     
   • Camera-recall on the other hand is. By using the Ctrl+Shift modifier, the very closest keys can be used instead of just keys that are used for control groups. This is supposed to outweigh the fact that the modifier is worse. But this is, of course, debatable and up to the person. You should make your own layout to fit you. I personally use the 1.0 way because I also prefer the better modifier
     
   • At the same time, Shift as a modifier is faster than Ctrl+Shift, so Control Group Create becomes faster. Also allows for some cool moves, mechanically.
   
   
2. The middle and ring finger are used for abilities, while the index and pinky are used for control groups. This theoretically reduces finger repetition, so that you can do stuff faster and with less strain on the individual finger. Of the index and ring finger, the rested position of the middle finger was chosen as the place for Attack.
   
   
3. Not sure if I'm looking at the wrong layout here, but Cloak/Decloak shares scheme with Burrow/Unburrow, while Transformer modes share their keys with phase/transport. It is a nice consistency to have, but it would mean either pushing EMP out to a worse key or pushing every transformer mode out to a worse key, which is not ideal, as EMP and some of the transformers are somewhat time-sensitive
   
   
4. The Bunker is a special case of multiplayer hotkey-junk. It shares Stim key with Marine/Marauder; Unload with Medivac (and other Unload thingies); Attack, Stop, Cancel with everything else. All of these keys are deemed more important, so Salvage is sometimes pushed out to solve the puzzle. Another important thing, is that we want to be able to make an Unload -> Salvage combination, so those keys should be on different fingers.

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