# Force Y/N in prompts
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [November 9, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893 "2013-11-09T23:51:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@timtek](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/timtek)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/1 "2013-11-09T23:51:15Z")
I’m just genuinely curious if anyone leaves it set to true. Personally it drives me crazy.
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### Author:  [@Isidarth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Isidarth)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/2 "2013-11-10T00:28:36Z")
I see no reason why not to turn it off. It still accepts Y and N as values, and it’s a lot easier to press just one key.
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### Author:  [@Luissen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Luissen)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/3 "2013-11-10T01:16:30Z")
I leave it on True because I play too slowly, over think, then die anyways because I didn’t think something through
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### Author:  [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/4 "2013-11-10T02:17:31Z")
I leave it to true because it takes more than one keypress, but I also turn off other options like querying on disassemble and auto-safe mode and other things that would cause prompts to appear. Generally I play very deliberately and I also type very quickly, so pressing keys is by far the minority of my time in game, except for movement and loot sorting.
The only time prompts come into play is when there might be some kind of danger around, in which case I want them to be slightly more difficult to randomly press if, for example, a cat runs across my keyboard for no apparent reason, he probably isn’t going to hit Shift+Y, but he will definitely hit y by itself.
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### Author:  [@infectedmochi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/infectedmochi)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/5 "2013-11-10T03:04:59Z")
I set it to False because it’s quicker and I tend to be aware of what I’m typing so the chance of sudden key stroke are very small.
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### Author:  [@moist\_zombie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/moist_zombie)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/6 "2013-11-10T03:30:57Z")
I’ll chime in to say I always turn capital prompts off… Cuts using SHIFT out of the equation, and I can’t think of a time I’ve caused myself harm by accidentally firing off an unintended lower-case y or n…
Off topic, but I also think “Ask to save before sleeping?” should be turned to always on and removed from the options list (all it does is adds a “Save before sleeping” option between the regular yes or no box that pops up currently…)
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### Author:  [@timtek](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/timtek)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/7 "2013-11-10T04:37:55Z")
> [@moist\_zombie](#):
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> Off topic, but I also think “Ask to save before sleeping?” should be turned to always on and removed from the options list (all it does is adds a “Save before sleeping” option between the regular yes or no box that pops up currently…)
I definitely agree with you on that one. It seems like a perfect time to save the game. I always turn that on.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/8 "2013-11-10T19:46:54Z")
I like having the safety-interlocks on. Been cheap-killed often enough in roguelikes that don’t have 'em.
As for save before sleep: I like doing that manually.
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/9 "2013-11-10T19:48:13Z")
I’ve tried playing with ‘ask to save before sleeping’ on before and the problem I ran into was the times when I failed to go to sleep after
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/10 "2013-11-10T19:51:14Z")
> [@EkarusRyndren](#):
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> I’ve tried playing with ‘ask to save before sleeping’ on before and the problem I ran into was the times when I failed to go to sleep after
Yeah. That too. Insomniac can be managed, but getting it wrong is a pain.
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/11 "2013-11-11T01:48:23Z")
I leave it set to true. Forcing capitalization isn’t that big of a deal to me, capitalizing the ‘Y’ only takes a tiny bit of extra movement anyways.
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### Author:  [@timtek](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/timtek)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/12 "2013-11-11T04:36:15Z")
This poll is actually running a lot closer than I had expected. I figured everyone just set it to false.
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### Author:  [@Derschlact](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Derschlact)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/13 "2013-11-11T04:36:58Z")
I leave it on.
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### Author:  [@The\_Darkling\_Wolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Darkling_Wolf)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/14 "2013-11-11T21:14:58Z")
The main reason it exists is because the VIkeys control scheme uses y and I think n as well for movement, and it’s a pretty common control scheme, especially among people with no numberpads on their keyboards.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/15 "2013-11-11T21:21:21Z")
> [@The Darkling Wolf](#):
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> The main reason it exists is because the VIkeys control scheme uses y and I think n as well for movement, and it’s a pretty common control scheme, especially among people with no numberpads on their keyboards.
Yeah, I’ve read horror story after horror story of Nethack accidents with move keys and lowercase y/n. One reason I’m a total cursor/numpad user.
And, yeah, TDW sighting. /refrains from taking photos, video, etc
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### Author:  [@VampyreLord](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/VampyreLord)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/16 "2013-11-12T11:28:44Z")
Since I don’t use keyboard for movement I turn it off completely. In fact when I first played Cata I was glad this was among the options to turn off.
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### Author:  [@PoeSalesman](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PoeSalesman)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/force-y-n-in-prompts/3893/17 "2013-11-12T12:12:00Z")
I leave it on because I’m a huge clutz and would accidentally screw myself over if I didn’t.