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Manual gun control
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Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#1 - 2014-04-04 15:22:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Swiftstrike1
I would dearly love to see a "manual override" mode where pilots can take control of their gun turrets and fire them manually with a crosshair and everything.

Obvious problems would include:

  • How do you navigate while in manual firing mode? Answer: you don't. Nice and simples Smile
  • How do you prevent people from gaining stupidly high tracking by turning up their mouse sensitivity?

I have no idea how to fix that second problem, but I'm sure someone could fix it. This feature would probably be useless except in capital ship fights with stationary targets. It would almost certainly be less effective than what we currently have for frigate fights. It might be completely impractical in 99% of situations, but....

At the end of the day, Eve is a game and we play games because they are fun. I think this would be very fun Big smile

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Funless Saisima
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-04-04 15:30:38 UTC
Yeah....they'd have to rewrite how everything is done in the game.
Noxisia Arkana
Deadspace Knights
#3 - 2014-04-04 15:32:50 UTC
I can't fault your 'let me sandbox how I want for fun' mentality, however - I can see server ticks being a problem here - especially if the calculations are done server side (which I believe they are).

In general this falls under the, I want a joystick style of play that EvE is pretty much built not to support.
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#4 - 2014-04-04 16:08:12 UTC
To the OP.

Wait for Eve Valkyrie?

And I personally think of eve ships as modern warships with automated weapons systems with computers that can track and hit targets better than any human possibly ever could.

-k8

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Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#5 - 2014-04-04 20:00:52 UTC
a similar idea from commonly proposed ideas.

u may find the reasons why something like this has yet to implemented, or may never be implemented.

EVE FAQ "7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided"

Daichi Yamato's version of structure based decs
Egravant Alduin
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#6 - 2014-04-04 20:28:16 UTC
Have been suggested but as the above people said they should rewrite the whole game mechanic since now it's point and click based.

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Ix Method
Doomheim
#7 - 2014-04-04 20:32:16 UTC
If we wanted this we wouldn't be playing Eve tbh.

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