Player Features and Ideas Discussion

..Would probably be completely simple. Radial menu for targeting, directional commands (which would be really helpful anyway: up, down, left, right, forward, and backward from the camera angle)..

WASD's viability has nothing to do with standard gameplay design, but server updates.

12 keys can become 30 keys with toggling and hold-modifiers. It's a pretty small project: explicitly, directional commands, radial targeting, targeting modifiers (modes like asteroids, ships, etc.), and actual controller recognition. They could probably get away with simple controller recognition, because controllers can already utilize mouse pointers.

M8, I use D (warp to), C (camera tracking), V (scan), ctrl+space (stop ship), ctrl+shift+space (max speed), and 1-4 on modules with a shift modifier for overheat.. plus clicking targets and selecting scan settings. That's not even 15 keys.

All of those could be navigated with a joystick. They're on the Neocom/etc.

IDK, maybe I'm just revisiting the directional command topic. I'd like to be able to send the ship in directions, slingshotting without having to spin the camera around.

This the best course of action. Make it work well enough OP you could be famous. Get a good profile for sharing, people would love you. Or hate you and say fix this , fix that, fix the other thing.

Which is probably why CCP avoids the whole matter. Stock Keyboard layouts can be contentious enough....I spend a fair amount of time in console gaming....we tend to be even moe particular in that realm really. Seen some PC ports....the keyboard/mouse aspect much preferred. And these weren't FPS...won't make it that easy and go for the biggest ding to console controllers.


But worth noting, lots of games this is player driven regardless. Have a good profile, you think anyway, host that profile download somewhere and I was not even joking, you could get some hits to that site to be internet-famous.

-1 - there are far to many things that need attention in this game to waste time on this. However if CCP wants to add it to the bottom of the very long list of someday we might have time to do this list I am OK with that.


Like the others there is simply not enough buttons on a controller I would constantly be changing profiles, mapping or whatever you want to call it over the course of an EvE gaming session and that simply does not sound like fun to me.

But there are enough buttons when paired with keys on the key board you would say. My response is if I have to use the keyboard in combination with the controller to have enough combinations then why bother with the controller at all.

And I agree with Iain Cariaba, the pointer controlled by a controller is either to imprecise to work well, or it is to slow to navigate around the screen effectively.

If you have a console controller this will help you.
Using a console controller on your PC
However since the game needs to be controller enabled for this to work we end up at the start with no.

to be fair they did give us tights.

Time would probably be better spent on an adaptive VR interface for motion controls.

-Hand Gesture Hotkeys
-Peaceable GUI

OP, I appreciate the idea but you can hotkey/configure most any controller to do whatever you want it to include typing in a word document. Yes, it sometimes requires some third party software depending on the age of the controller and who made it. But those programs are usually either free or cheap. So for those who wish it, you can have a completely controller based EVE experience they simply have to put in the effort and afford it the patience required to accomplish it.