Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Default camera zoom distance needs to be adjustable also.

I have always thought that using the up/down/left/right arrows as faster/slower/closer/further would be usefull its just that there is not a easy way to tell orbit distance on the hud.

Right click needs two setable distances per ship ship type. Becouse that is how its currently stored right per ship type?

One that can be set at current distance and saved.
Then one that you set using the drop down.


The issue is you can keep at range but you have to remember what range you want and then get there first.

What ever you have selected and saved as your orbit point could be person, ship, rock.
Or better yet two orbit points so you can switch back and forth.
Or use camera focus as one also.

Having some additional controls would allow pilots to experiment more with range instead of looking up the range for weapon and selecting the closest default orbit distance.

left arrow would be switch target left right arrow would be switch target right...

down arow would be approach

up arrow would be keep distance

and pressing down and up at the same time would be orbit?

I think a useful setup would be on the overview button menu for approach, orbit, etc. A text box where you can enter a distance to do whatever you want. You could type in 8000 and shift-click the orbit button and it would orbit 8000. The same would apply to warp, keep at range, etc. as an easier way of always setting defaults when the scenario changes.

In a very fast PvP scenario, sometimes you need to get to a certain range (that isn't a multiple of the ranges given) while maintaining transversal or not losing any range in the process, so doing right click> set default> type in distance>ok to get the distance to be 8000 is much too slow for such a scenario. I mean, it's very possible, but not at all convenient. Setting your preferred distance should be a single command. I self pilot quite a bit, but sometimes you just need to be at an exact range, to maximize your damage and safety in a fight, for example, kiting around 10k with a rail frig has you within scram range overheated and still getting great damage with 150mm rails. This is very useful, and it's difficult to manually pilot at this range without exiting scram range. The best method of doing it is a combination of self piloting and automated (automated is sometimes slow to react to changes, but its very precise).

No people have been complaining about not being able to fly their ships via keyboard. up and down would control speed. left or right would control distance. But once the options are there you can set them up how you want to. Speed can already be done that way but distance cannot.

I like my more orbit points and more saved distances better makes it easier for more people.

There is also the fly parallel option that evryone wants but has not been programed in yet also

You're over complicating a very simple suggestion.

I just want to see this one simple fix. Overhauling the orbit UI is a project for another expansion.

For anyone who has played any RTS game like SC2 you know how fast you can press key combinations. I would like right click UI that would work like the following:
I want to warp at 100 to Planet 5 moon 4.

1. 1) Press [T] (or Arbitrary key press, can be anything) opens the right click menu
Each part of the menu has a letter attributed to it:
[P]lanets
[S]tation
Sta[R]gates


2. [P] a list of the planets in the solar system comes up
3. [5] and the list of all the actions comes up. I press
4. [M] and a list of all the moon comes up
5. [4] and the actions for Planet 5 Moon 4 are available.
6. [R]
7. [100]
8. A confirmation message comes up and I can quickly confirm my warp
9. [Enter]

In all I have typed into my keyboard “TP5M4R100-Enter” and I have navigated my way through the menu and began my warp in 5 seconds. Instead of take 20 seconds winding my way through a tedious window trying to figure out what the roman numeral is for 4.

Give me a reason why this is a bad idea. I am no UI designer but this seems pretty simple to implement.

If you're in a sniper ship, you generally don't want to be orbiting, you want to be managing your distance with Keep at Range/Approach or manually in order to minimize transversal, remain in proximity with the rest of your fleet, etc.

The same suggestion applies to adding the default keep at range distance to the keep at range context menu.