WOW!!!

I am not a noob, but am a Vet Eve player, but more so an FS user from 1995 through FSX & MS Flight development.

Any kind of many movement in a space ship fight game is an improvement & would bring on some proper dog fighting scenarios, especially those used to the WASD shift/ctrl/space group of players.

I agree; my first impressions of Eve from a long long time ago where based around flight simulator, Elite, Wind commander experience & the lack of direct flight input was debilitating to get used to.

Needless to say (without making Eve a flight simulator) some things need to be considered for those likely to go down the manual control (Stick) route:

The vector of the ship is in conflict with the turn & mass, the ship coming out of a turn up or down, when the ship should keep it's turn while modifying it's vector via delta-v.

Also coming out of a bank or nose up/down automatically makes if very 80's arcady, this also stops any form of immelman or other interception manoeuvres for dog fights. Need to be able to push past north or south for rolls, more variation in intercepts.

Following on from other posts, no direct input flight game would offer the vector for your own ship/craft, only for those of others for intercept or turret/gun tracking target purposes. But a chase camera option & a sitting in the pilot seat option IS essential.

I think the feature (for me) is a long awaited one. My biggest gripe being the spherical collision detection of most objects in Eve, not allowing you to hug objects, park close, hide behind objects, all weapons seem to magically ignore these objects when you are behind them or your enemy is (or even a friendly getting in the way) If this last paragraph is fixed it would make for a Very interesting game in eve (especially for fleet fights around stations or in asteroid fields). When behind an object you should be invulnerable to all but a homing missile (of sorts)

Either way it makes for expansion of the point click, click weapon & wait for enemy to die mythology & will allow people with real Stick skills to earn names within Eden.

I love it & on the edge of my seat to see where CCP takes this (or as usual F`s it up LOL, maybe they'll listen, but history teaches us otherwise)

Signed (not so bitter) Vet.