Player Features and Ideas Discussion

considering this is a game about who went into the fight with the biggest boots
and you take turns kicking each other in the shins until the guy drops dead..

well yeah?

In what way doesn't this work ?

You can either orbit manually if you're good,
or lower the orbitting distance via button gradually.
In small decrements.

It works.

rant:

Hell, how many more idiots will keep posting bullcrap about things he's too ignorant to learn ??

The same old arguements in play.

I can already do that (although it's a pain in the ass) vs it would be better if the game had an option to do this smoothly.

Of course you can close in your orbit manually, then again we all know that EVE has never handled manual flight control very well. It's not really designed to do so.

So the question is, which skills would be more enjoyable in actual game play without simplifiying things too much.

1: Making rough estimates of where to double click in space to herd your ship in a general direction.
2: Adding some different preset manuvers to choose from that may (or in some cases may NOT) compliment each other.

Adding a Death Spiral manuver to the basic orbit features only really has merit if you take it a step further and add several other manuvers at the same time. If you do that pilot skill begins to reflect the tactics of how you string the flight patterns together effectively (or not) instead of how fast you double click in space... and frankly nobody has suggested taking away the ability to double click in space as you always have.

This likely won't ever happen, but lets not just knee jerk at the thought.

Blame Star Fox and my 5sec Google Search :D

I would really love to see some new maneuvers - even an unique new UI tab for only those!

would be a great idea..

Exactly. This type of practical manuver (with an actual value in combat) are impossible to perform manually.

However, we have the usual crowd in that believe the simple manuvers we have now are more than enough (which is fine, nobody would force them to use other options).

Perhaps we should remove orbit, keep at range, and approach as these can all be done manually as well.

Different options, different skills necessary to be "good".

The ability to double click in a general direction doesn't make you good, it's the timing involved. That would not change.

Nor would your ability to fly manually go away.

See? Even Chribba, the Platonic Carebear, knows how to spiral approach.

You should be ashamed of yourself.