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[w]

There should be a way to move the cursor quickly in situations where it reverts to "one keypress = one square".

I understand that there's a need for such fine-grained control in certain situations - e.g. laying out plots or designations - but sometimes I want to designate or undesignate a large swath.  The current "one square at a time" system makes doing this somewhat frustrating.

Perhaps arrow keys are one square, but "shift-arrow" is ten (or whatever the standard in the non-fine-grained case currently is).

[Draco18s]

Or when designating "Take from pile" and I want something on the other side of the fortress.  I've taken to holding down the key with on hand and surfing the 'net on my other PC with my other hand.

[w]

quote:Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>Or when designating "Take from pile" and I want something on the other side of the fortress.</STRONG>

Right, that's the worst version of this problem that I've seen.

[ctrlfrk]

If you hold down all the numpad keys in that direction it moves slightly faster.
Like, to move right, hold 9,6 and 3.

[Aquillion]

The mouse could also be helpful here...  using a right-click to re-center the screen like you can with designations would let you zoom around very quickly.

[herbacious]

What ctrlfrk mentioned is as so far I've seen the best method of doing this, like he said to go right, holding 9 & 3 on the numpad will actually make you zig-zag to the right at twice the speed as just holding right, because it illicits 2 key responses and ignores the set wait time you get just holding 6.