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Manual piloting
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Newt BlackCompany
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2015-01-30 16:59:52 UTC
I decided to test the new "manual piloting" controls, so opened the hotkeys and set up-down-left-right to WSAD, and then accelerate/decelerate to EC. Then started playing with them.

I must say, I'm underwhelmed.

While the right-left controls did make me go in a circle pretty well, the up-down controls didn't. They made me go to "galactic" north-south instead.

The "manual" piloting controls are currently steering you relative to the grid, not relative to your ship, so they really are not very effective.

Of course, the physics of EVE ship movements has always been a bit bizarre, but it would be nice if we could pilot a ship relative to itself.



Paranoid Loyd
#2 - 2015-01-30 17:05:03 UTC
As long as the server works on 1 second ticks, it would never be effective either way.

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Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#3 - 2015-01-30 19:09:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Crumplecorn
To do so would require a rework of how EVE handles ship vectors I believe.

That's below WiS on the list of sane things to spend dev time on.

Fortunately, pointing and clicking allows for manual control which actually works well, as it has for a decade or so.

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#4 - 2015-01-30 19:29:04 UTC
It's even worse. If you point your ship up, then hold down "turn right", you would expect your ship to do a spiral climb. It doesn't. It flattens back out into the ecliptic plane.

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Orlacc
#5 - 2015-01-30 19:40:24 UTC
EVE has never been a flight simulator.

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Eojek
Starlight Moly
#6 - 2015-01-30 19:44:25 UTC
Try manual control in a high-speed vessel. You will find there is an advantage. Also, it's helpful for turning larger ships with greater efficientcy.
Hibernator X
Standing Wave Society
#7 - 2015-01-30 23:53:53 UTC
All I Want is to be able to do a loop de loop. Also, when is someone gonna make a synchronized myrmidon dancing video?
Azda Ja
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2015-01-31 02:16:28 UTC
I completely forgot this was a thing to be honest. I tried it once, laughed and went back to clicking.

Grrr.
Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#9 - 2015-01-31 02:18:16 UTC
Manual flying is a gimmick. Honestly it should never have been introduced.