Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You, too, can sit still and shoot for all day long.

I would love to fly with joy stick.
Wont even have to be 1st person. Just need a new locked camera that moves with the direction of the ship.
And like any flight sim. Your ships movement is still based on its performance. It just trys to go the way you want it to just like spamming double click now.

Denying this.

I haven't run into any issues like this one since starting a Falcon alt and blobbing alts.

Nah.

For one, I said 'not undocking for 12 months'.

Two, asking for less involvement is not... more involvement.

Three, your post was a strawman which is why I hadn't addressed it. You oversimplified my point and attacked the oversimplified version. "Double clicking in space doesn't make you skilled" but accurately manually piloting along a curve does. Having the computer run those calculations doesn't.

Also four, there's no chance in hell I as considering making that decision before seeing this thread which highlighted more prevalent personal issues for me than 'people want to make the game easier'. Nah.

I wish I could fly ships with my saitek x52 flight stick and throttle control. At least frigs dessies cruisers and battlecruisers.
its something I've wanted in this game since I first heard of EVE.

Go and use Kerbal space program for that, or Google Earth flight simulator.


EVE is RPG set in space, not a flight sim. Here you have this nonrealistic (magic) space properties, like a liquid, but not entirely a liquid. Spaceship is like a flying submarine with ballast tanks. You need constant energy input to maintain sub space speeds, planets are like soap bubbles, empty inside, and system is like a big room, CUBE painted inside. If you look carefully, you can see seam lines, where Devs welded it together.

Came in expecting the Death Blossom.

Not impressed.

I don't know how to break this to you bro... but every single ship in this game can be flown manually.

1: I had corrected my post before you posted your response.

2: Being able to choose from an array of flight manuvers as opposed to clicking in space is not "less involvement"... and again, no one would be taking away your double click to turn left capability.

3: My 7 year old can double click in space and fly the ship in a curve, get over yourself. Also, flying the ship in a simple curve has little to do with the flight manuver being suggested... more like a spiraling barrel roll that keeps your speed and transversal up while closing range. Double click that.

4: I have no idea what they heck you are trying to say, other than perhaps you had already intended to take a break from undocking and decided to get emo about it in this thread to draw attention to your argument.

If you have ever flown a frigate and not done this you are an idiot. To automate it would just dumb eve down to beyond a joke, manual flying is pretty much the only "skill" (as opposed to knowledge and awareness) involved in the game.