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You guys do joystick support I'll send you a present.

Wow, I wasn't expecting this, but I'm really looking forward to it.

(Though I'll set it to pilot's control as well.)

WTB joystick compatability plz

And thank god for that! I'm just teasing ;)

This is.... beyond amazing! Tonight, I will be rebinding my accel/decel to mouse wheel up and down, thx.

Some folks have mentioned chase cameras and POV considerations. So here are a couple options:

While in space hold right-click and drag mouse: will temporarily move your POV in the indicated direction. Upon release, POV will return to normal.

There are some fancy "Advanced" camera options that can be enabled from the esc menu, and tweaked from the capacitor menu iirc. One of these allows you to keep focus on your target from the POV of your own ship. Its basically an over-the-shoulder POV. I haven't used it in years and can't even confirm if its still there. But will definitely check tonight.

I suspect this won't be possible without ramping up the resolution of collision meshes which increases the impact on server load. But i don't have any specifics nor am I directly familiar with CCP's backend so don't take my word for anything more than a grain of salt.

HOTAS isn't going to work due to how we target entities and objects at this moment so using one would be a gimmick at best.

If HOTAS is going to be the primary way of control you'd have to get rid of targeting and just allow free-fire on our guns causing the game to stop being Eve Online and be an another X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter clone.

Going to be interesting times to see which one you guys want to start pursuing. It'll also quite clearly decide my subscription, but at least you're trying things out-of-the-box at the moment, we know how bad CCP is at finishing things.

Goddamnit, stop teasing us with the keyboard-controls and give us full Joystick-support already!

Holy ****, this is what I thought I was getting back then when I started playing! You just saved yourself a customer, CCP!

HOLY OH MY WHAT THE YES THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
GIVE IT TO ME
I WANT IT IN AND AROUND MY INTERNET SPACESHIPS

It sounds awesome, but is it really?

It feels like this would be a feature added for those that are bored and feel like flying around with WASD. Much like the station spin counter. How well is that kind of movement going to translate in fast paced combat scenarios?

Can this type of flying really integrate with flight mechanics already implemented without the player feeling an enormous disconnect between flying around with keys and having to use the mouse and other keys to perform actions?

I don't expect I'll be messing about trying to orbit someone with WASD to alter angular velocity or direction while I'm busy using the rest of my keyboard to micromanage everything else from modules to overview.