EVE General Discussion

i wonder how responsive it's going to be

when flying a frigate (from aus), i have trouble manual piloting and keeping point because it can take seconds for my ship to begin responding to a double-click command

i'm pretty sure i've only got some kills because the other person didn't see the disruption icon at the bottom of the screen flicking off-on-off-on as i attempt to manage range and heat

oh, the response time isn't just me? maybe i'm just bad. whelp mystery solved

I'm not too upset with this. Always thought it was strange that there really wasn't any manual piloting in EVE (and no, furiously double clicking in space while also dragging your camera in between clicks to maintain a decent orbit is not manual piloting). Although, I suppose I'll have to switch up my module hotkeys, or just bind movement somewhere else.

That plus an ability to keep shooting with "forward locked' turrets and bays when jammed would be epic. I have heard it over 1000 times, the lamentation of "Well I could not move, could not target, nothing. Then I died. This game sucks".

If we could still at least shoot and "dogfight" when jammed and scrammed instead of having to wait to die, that would be a huge plus for the game.

And we know that a forward turret that requires no locking is possible in the game. Bomb launchers anybody?


The long standing problem of being "jammed to death" answered NOT in "CCP nerfing something" but in simply being given a tool to use, to be able to turn and fire on your opponent... think about it!

Nobody asks for an "I WIN" Button. What the players want is a chance. Not "Oh I'm jammed. There's the scram...." (opens market screen). Give us forward shooting with WASD and that is the chance long awaited for.

That's not a problem at all. The problem is the people who don't fit correctly to counter potential problems they could face in a fight (such as ECCM, ecm or ecm drones of their own, mobil depots + high EHP or ancillary boosted tanks to refit warp core stabs, FoF missiles for ships that can use missiles, micro jump drives if the bad guy is using disruptor s instead of scrams etc etc).

If you can get jammed and scrammed to the point of uselessness you put too many eggs in one basket (or didn't bring friends like you should have). With all the tools available in game, CCP should not have to compensate for player incompetence.

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I hardly believe that you would be able to hit like that with the way the Eve engine works. To make that possible you require a much higher update frequency, unless the target sits completly still. Higher update frequency would lower the maximum amount of people being able to participate in a single battle a lot and I highly doubt this will ever happen. Piloting your ship with not 100% accurate control might possibly work (even though i can not imagine that will be anything like actually accuratly controlling your spaceship), but accurate aiming is a complete different story.

You will never get this without a complete rewrite of the game physics, and that would be a huge undertaking. So its more then likely not going to happen anytime soon.

Another game coming has this as a feature... I bet in a year you will see them turn that feature off, esp when a group of eve players invades and shows how that feature can be abused to high hades.

But besides that, if we had collision damage, then all undocks would have to change, and you would have delayed undocking, or something because there is zero way jita's 4-4 station would work correctly anymore if this was changed

No.

No.

That depends if the titan pilots are too drunk to log in or not.

Hopefully.

No.

We are all dying from the time we exit the womb.

That is alright. We Southpaws are all possessed by evil spirits and expected to have short life expectancy anyway.



Might as well screw us on the keyboard and mouse ergonomics thing.