Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Better piloting by the capsuleer/fc helps. This isn't really a feature, has no ideas and is likely only to receive laughs

you really like sitting back and doing nothing dont you.

Indeed.

Too bad CCP couldn't care less about your opinion in this regard, given the many similar types of changes and improvements they've made to the game over the years.

So... I'll chalk all those up as a win for me!

In any case, you'll note I did first suggest manual control over our ships. Is that wanting to do nothing? But barring that, more intelligent ship navigation and movement would be nice. And I suspect CCP agrees.

Nice try you and your cohorts at the PvP forum trolling meta-game though.

You need to get out more

incoming ISD removal of off topic posts in 5...4...3...

Collision spheres are apparently complicated. I've never been stuck on something which I didn't know beforehand I was going to get stuck in and plan my movement accordingly.

Any chance of a screenshot to show where you got stuck? I mean, if you managed to squeeze into the hole, you could just do a full turn and go out the same way?

I like that ships get stuck. At times it allows me to destroy them with rediculously superior forces.

Here is what is good about being able to get stuck on stuff (in this case asteroids).

Get on comms with your buddies.
Sit on the Dodi undock in plain view of all.
Type in local "help help, i'm being attacked in the asteroid belt"
Giggle at all the expert advice you get.
Add the following: "there is a red plus sign attacking me. I'm going to lose my ship... someone please help me"
When they tell you to warp out, tell them you are stuck on an rock
Giggle as the real experts weigh in as to how to escape your immenent demise
Keep adding imaginary stuck on a rock getting killed by a red plus sign stuff
See how long you can keep it going.

It's quite fun every once in a while.

Removing the Happy Dance feature would remove all the above fun from the game and add nothing of value in return.

They already took away the "R-click the billboard at the gate, Hit control and then hold the Q button to see the new Quafe advertisement video" game from the game. Then watch the number of folks in local start dropping.

Let's not get rid of all the super fun mini games.

To answer your question, OP, it is because computers are stupid. When given the instruction, "Fly to there," the computer attempts to fly in a straight line, and will do so until it runs into something. If you don't want to run into something, it is up to the pilot to make sure there is nothing between here and there. Remember, trying to build a smarter computer lead to rogue drones, so it's unlikely your ship's computer is going to get a smarter AI.

Indeed. The bounding 'spheres?' around objects really does suck. It definitely takes A LOT a way from the game, the immersion, and the shear coolness factor, of not being able to fly your ship up close to anything. To have your little frigate buzzing along the side of a much larger ship (like the current load-in screen image).

I guess ideally, maybe someday in the future, we could not only have full manual control over how our ships move (with restrictions based on how nimble individual ships would be), but there would be no bounding spheres and you could get hull to hull, or fly along the contours of another object in space.

Fortunately there's already a well defined and understood algorithm for determining the shortest path between two points while avoiding obstacles.