Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well, what we have at the moment is mostly fine.

BUT, there are a least one thing that may require tweakings: orbiting. Why, when i try to orbit something stationnary, my ship will decide to change the orbit direction based on wether my prop mod is on or off? The thing is a damn collidable, why do i need to do a 180° turn just because i changed speed?

Just saying...

Well I've not tested it but the balance of probability tells me that with a prop mod active you hold an orbit further out than you request, usually elliptical.

Turn off the prop mod and you can hold a tighter orbit so it compensates, which depending where you turn it off might result in a 180 (ish) manoeuvre.


Also @OP - we have manual controls to fly the ship now - fill yer boots.

Well, yes, it's been doing that more or less consistently for at least 2-3 years, which is why i never thought about it being possibly a bug. Mostly happening when orbiting gates really thigh (500-2000m) in small & agile ships (the kind of things that get instapopped as soon as speed drop to make the 180° turn, actually, which is why it was bothering me). (Never been flying bigger ships in those kind of situation where i need to hold on gate. Not sure if it would happen.) I'll try to remember to video capture that and contact support.

AND THAT IS YOUR OWN POV! :)

Your reasonable argument against something what I never mentioned. Never said that EVE should do a perfect max-traversal path to the desired orbit for a button press. What I said would still require mouse clicks, but a bit less. That would'nt rid the skill but would make it much more rich because of the increased number of possibilities.

Again if you were take your time think through what I said you might realise, that you still had to chose a path which can be good/bad, better or worse choice. In my example I used a single stationary object to show the paths (to possibly chose from) but could you use your grey-matter to create an imaginary model where two ships choosing paths?

So two moving object w/ different speed choosing one-one path different from the other would create a real 'dance in space' since the endpoint for the path were in constant move. So would the two draw a spiral, a never ending spiral. with a little change even by only one path the spiral would deform and get twisted in 3d space...
So you think this is cheating, because it does everything for you, right. Nope, this is only the approach path, which should be followed by another approach/escape path chosen or an orbit path, otherwise your ship would just stop reaching the target of the path.

What were happen if you choose the same path (so you go pretty much straight to the opponent)? Either can chose quickly another path so one's could look like an S shape, while the other might fly in a fairly straight line. Or just let it happen and because of the high speed just overshoot the target and get in another kind of spiral.

Or could yo manage to force the opponent make a very sharp turn so slow him down, yes you definitely could get the advantage in a faster and more agile ship.

Could any of these be done by a simple button press? No way. You need to improvise.

IMHO finally the ship agility could really mean something apart form how fast you can align to the GTFO point.

Thanks for all the comments!