Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sometimes it would be useful to have some more options for camera control. Always being fixed to your ship (or another ship/object) is not always preferable. A "WASD" style free camera with the orientation directed by the mouse (fps style basically) would be quite useful I think both for movie making, as well as combat.

The ability to quickly set and recall camera positions would also be very useful regardless adding the feature above. Suppose for the sake of discussion ctrl + H,J,K,L by default would be used to set camera position / target, and using those keys without the modifier would recall. Imagine for example, you are in a few man fight, you are manually keeping range from one of the ships. You use the "look at" command, then press ctrl-H, you now look at the gate, and press ctrl-J, then reset your camera back to your ship. You can now (while on grid of course) simply press H or J to look at those respective targets. If the above free cam is implemented than arbitrary locations on the grid could be saved, (for example a better view of a gate area than what you get looking straight at it, perhaps the opposing fleet is off the gate twords the sun somewhat, and you would like to have a good side/top view of the engagement without having to set look-at to a target which may or may not be there in the next 30 seconds.

It's been mentioned before, but a client side battle-recorder would be REALLY useful, and ccp, it's in your interest to do it, as many more good eve videos would be able to be produced with such a feature. Most people either cannot, or do not wish to sacrifice the performance to run fraps during a large fleet fight, even fewer can do it while running multiple clients at full resolution / fps.