Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There is always the method some mmos use in which the game will use a kind of psuedo tab targeting to give more of a feeling of control.
eve uses tab targeting, and so by pointing and shooting at a locked target, you could give make it seem as though you are manually shooting at an entity, although really the only thing that has changed is the method of target selection. Of course, this doesn't mess with turret tracking like in the OP,