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This going to be HUGE for gameplay for those of us who PVP.
Finally my friends will be interested in Eve as well.

I too suggested some discussion about this quite some time ago. The 1 second refresh rate of the server may be an issue, but actually it may as well not, if the system is built up in the right way.
I think allowing actual maneuverability more than the double click is something that can be useful also for veteran players. It might be true that weapons have automatic targeting systems, but the distance, velocity, transversal velocity, angular velocity, are complex factors we don't have as for now a good way around but the double click feature. Approaching a target on an interception course is something that can be done only in manual mode, and manual mode as for now sucks.
I would also like to see the possibility to orientate your ship not only on 3 axes, but actually allow how before suggested barrel roll. Space is three dimensional, I can see the point of "having everything ordered" on a planar level, it would be strange to see stations at strange angles like stargates (or maybe not, who knows? Neptune twists on a horizontal axis, so a station orbiting Neptune would have to be horizontally oriented too, or following a normal to the planet's surface), but allowing a full control of a ship can do nothing but good to simulation of Sci fi purpose of EVE. Obviously, maneuvering big ships like battleships or industrials would be no good, but better to have that possibility that not having it.

+1

manual flying would be cool but i think manual guns (aiming) would be cool too. Get jammed then switch to manual and fire. Of course make it hard to do but could be a little fun also. Still, love the way CCP is going

There is no cockpit, the capsuleer is directly in control of the ship with their mind and their body is just floating in the liquid of the pod. Basically the capsuleer is a biological central computer, the brain of the spaceship. As long as the capsuleer is inside a spaceship, they cease to be human. Theyre literally sentient spaceships. Their camera drones are their eyes, their sensors and scanners are their spaceship senses.

I think this is a crucial thing that eve needs to get right. I hope people at CCP wont turn this game into something that involves cockpits. Thats what everyone else is going to do. There are going to be hundreds of ****** space dogfighting games involving cockpits. Eve has the opportunity of actually offering you the experience of being a literal sentient spaceship that looks at itself in third person. But eve will need to do something in order to stay relevant when the oculus is released. It wont be enough to just have a camera following your ship around but cockpits arent the solution either. At best theyre a solution for frigates, and hardly for anything larger than that. You just dont command a battleship from a cockpit, thats absurd. Perhaps in the future there could be a way to see inside the facilities of battleships and capitals with cameras showing the insides of the ship and the ability to manually micromanage different crews, giving the ship certain bonuses or changing its stats in some way.

I like the idea of manual flight in space, however, in the devblog, they said for control that up would move you up. I would think for flight control, press up to nose down, and down to nose up, same as would be for a joystick control.

0.o err...manual flying makes a massive difference, watch this

You forget he main reason why this is problematic in eve. wasd and even more.. by a far ammount joysticks, create a MUCH larger ammounht of input commands arriving at the eve server. That might becomeproblematic in crowded nodes.

It has chance of creating a new server bottleneck. So probably you will not get somethign so responsive as traditional video game controls, but somethign with a update only once per second scheme.

I have to second this. At the the very least add an option to invert the y-axis.

Rift features are similar to RMB camera view so it shouldn't be a problem.

Joystick support please. The major joystick manufacturers would be more than happy to help with drivers given the huge Eve user base. You already have x and y axes mapped in Rhea, and you know *every* capsuleer would have to have one as it would be a monumental benefit for any PvPer!

Ship agility would become a major factor in combat literally overnight for any encounters at sub-light speeds and possibly even at warp.. You could tie skills like Evasive Maneuvering to joystick responsiveness settings, etc, etc, Many possibilities for a joystick add-on!

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