Any way to make options character-specific, not account-wide?

[Kinaki]

I'm really trying to work around the clunky UI changes implemented today and part of that is customizing hotkeys moreso for each character. But hotkeys are account-wide... is there a way to disable this and make them character-specific?

[ReadOnly]

You can use WinEQ2 to create different profiles which will allow for different keybinds per character

[gkmarino]

Does that feature require the subscription fee?

[Kinaki]

I like how this was moved from technical discussion to Rants & Flames for, presumably, the use of the word clunky and calling a spade a spade.

[Kinaki]

I'll try, ReadOnly.

[monkeydoc]

I'm not sure what you mean about hotkeys being account-wide. Like the keybinds? Because as far as I'm aware, that's the only part of it that is account-wide.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Kinaki [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I like how this was moved from technical discussion to Rants & Flames for, presumably, the use of the word clunky and calling a spade a spade.

Yeah, seems like a moderator failure ... but with all of the recent patch cry babies I imagine the mods are having to deal with a lot, so I'm sure it was an honest mistake.

Hopefully they'll move it back soon.

[loramin]

By the way, there's a very kludgy solution to your problem: just copy your EQ directory for each separate character profile, and make shortcuts to the files in each one for each of your characters.

It will require wasting several gigs of space per character, and again it's kludgy, but you'll wind up with icons on your desktop for each character that take you to EQ instances with the preferences you want for that character.

[Droxx]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

By the way, there's a very kludgy solution to your problem: just copy your EQ directory for each separate character profile, and make shortcuts to the files in each one for each of your characters.

It will require wasting several gigs of space per character, and again it's kludgy, but you'll wind up with icons on your desktop for each character that take you to EQ instances with the preferences you want for that character.

You can do this without wasting any space via the use of symbolic links in Windows. Effectively all the different EQ directories would "point" to the common files and reference their own EQClient.ini files.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Droxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can do this without wasting any space via the use of symbolic links in Windows. Effectively all the different EQ directories would "point" to the common files and reference their own EQClient.ini files.

Maybe symbolic links on Windows work differently, but on Linux they're basically suped-up shortcuts, which means they won't work here.

If you make a three symlinks to the same EQ folder, that folder will still have just one eqclient.ini. If you make three symlinks to that file, same issue.

What you want is:

• Folder A with all your actual EQ files
• Folder B with only a single real file (eqclient.ini) and symlinks for every other file pointing to the actual versions in A
• Folder C, again with only a single real file (eqclient.ini) and symlinks for every other file pointing to the actual versions in A

... but that would require making like a bajillion symlinks: there are a lot of files in the EverQuest directory and sub-directories.