[Edarta]

Foreword

The servers are down for de-glitching, so I start telling tales.
I was a fan of "swissmade" Logitech gaming pads and mice. While my G13 key pad is in its 6th year (the model is in its 11th year), the G500 mice just survived warranty. Then it died. The right button contact started to fail, created unwanted double clicks, drag & drops failed. User reviews told the same about the G502 successor. Rather than coughing 60 stripes of dough for a designed-to-die mouse, I did a Vulcan Nixon and went to China. Got me a gaming mouse for 30 stripes.

The Mouse
My (seller varies) ET 11 Key Thunderbird wired gaming mouse:

Sightly heavier than my G500 weight setup, the mouse comes with extra weight for athletical attitude. I want cables for everything except headset. The mouse interpretes my Z as Y and vice versa, (German QWERTZ keyboard treated like a US QWERTY keyboard). Being too lazy to look for a fix I just adapted.
There are gaming mice with much more keys. Overkill for my needs and too complicated to use for me.

Top View

I repurposed (best word ever!) the middle button to hit my spam key* periodically while pressed. The red "fire" key became middle key.

Evolution gave us: Thumbs

I use 3** of the 5 side buttons:

• far/lower forward: Offense Buffs/Special Offense Powers key*
  
• middle/upper forward: Shield Healing key*
  
• near/center: Hull Healing key*
  

The Y-Pulse

The Macro says: Spam Key Down, wait 1/10 second, Spam Key Up, wait a bit longer. Repeat if key is pressed contineuosly.  

Time will show how durable the mouse is. I hope for long as I am more quite happy with it.

*I use a STO key bind file that binds 4 keys to different trays, the spam binding is a bit more. There is an entire thread on keybindings.
** I have tumbs, not tentacles.