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Kyoto Luyi
MX3 Development
Zzz
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Posted - 2008.02.15 12:18:00 -
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 Originally by: Jack Oconner
I recently started to play EVE, and was mildly speaking , astonished by the grapich, the scenery and the Vast number of oppertunitys , but then i got to the gameplay itself, the stearing of the ship is nothing like what i expected, i was expecting something like Freespace etc, not like "click *ship turns wierdly and flyes to cursor* " i was really like ... "Awwwwww"
Hehe - when I first found EvE in the games store years ago I thought "Wow! This looks like MMO ELITE!" so I bought a decent joystick with it and rushed home... only to find it didn't need a joystick 
Grown to love the game's control system since then though. Stick with it - it's fun.
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Viryana
Genco
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.02.15 12:46:00 -
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You don't need to actually steer your ship as 90% of all combat in EVE takes place at the fittings screen before you even undock.
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Viryana
Genco
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.02.15 12:49:00 -
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Originally by: Kyoto Luyi
I thought "Wow! This looks like MMO ELITE!" so I bought a decent joystick
Ummm Elite wasn't played using a joystick, at least I didn't. No way you could have been able to actually hit anything with a joystick tbh 
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Kyoto Luyi
MX3 Development
Zzz
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Posted - 2008.02.15 12:54:00 -
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Edited by: Kyoto Luyi on 15/02/2008 12:53:54
Originally by: Viryana
Ummm Elite wasn't played using a joystick, at least I didn't. No way you could have been able to actually hit anything with a joystick tbh
I played it on a spectrum 48K using the 'rubber' keyboard, but I figured that Eve looked so 'modern' that it would use a joystick - does that make more sense? 
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Cosmar
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2008.02.15 13:14:00 -
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It's just not feasable to have a MMO game with manual control and the number of players EvE has.
The server lag problems would be 100 times worse if the game worked like that, you hardly notice a 1 second delay in response now, but imagine what it would be like if you had to dodge lasers around.
It would be awesome if there was some hardcore Elite-like MMO game around, with a nice realistics physics engine for some tactical combat based on player skill, but i think it would need to have small servers to work for technical reasons, a couple of thousand players on one at the most.
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Rogue Roy
Minmatar
Rogue Aces
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Posted - 2008.02.15 13:39:00 -
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Bah, Elite played just fine with a joystick (C-64 and Amiga) and hitting single-pixel enemies at extreme ranges was no problem (that's how I won most of my fights).
Regarding EVE...
I was also a little put-off by the control model of EVE when I started but it grew on me. And it fits the idea of you being *in command* rather well. You give the order and the crew/robots/ship AI/whatever carry it out.
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Roy Gordon
Caldari
The Star Wolves
Aunni Ti Tsuun Consortium
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Posted - 2008.02.15 14:02:00 -
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For those with a bent towards the style of play found in Wing Commander, FreeSpace, FreeLancer etc should wait for either of these two games to appear- X-Online and Elite-Online. X-Online is based on the highly successful 'X' series of games (which you can already play multi-player, go to the games website for details), whilst Elite-Online is of course based on Elite.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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zac2000
x13 Holding
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Posted - 2008.02.15 14:04:00 -
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hey... we fly spaceship using mouse in our time.
wire's are so 1990
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Jason 06092001
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Posted - 2008.02.15 14:12:00 -
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One thing to keep in mind, flying with a joystick really is for a game where you are flying a single seat craft, you are the pilot, gunner, everything. Eve is based on large ships that would be crewed by many people. Flying and shooting in a capitol ship really doesn't make sense with a joystick.
Eve's model is more like you are the Capitan of the ship giving orders to your crew. That's the way I see it anyway.
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Julius Romanus
Blood Corsair's
Blood Blind
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Posted - 2008.02.15 16:18:00 -
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Edited by: Julius Romanus on 15/02/2008 16:26:17
Originally by: Phoenicia
Originally by: Julius Romanus
It's pretty close thats for sure. Was 2 the one that's opening movie was a pilot in a shot up fighter desperately trying to get a radio msg off?
Either way, the freespace games were like wingcommander 3 with an extra helping of awesome added just to prove a point.
That was Freespace 1.
"OH GOD THEY'RE FOLLOWING ME! MAYDAY!"
Ahhh yes. The intro to freespace2 wasnt nearly as "amp you up" as that one(thx youtube). Very few cinematics have been lol.
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Kruel
Beyond Divinity Inc
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Posted - 2008.02.15 16:37:00 -
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I too was disappointed in the lack of proper controls. However I quickly got used to it and have been playing for over 2 years now.
One thing to keep in mind, is that if we could steer the ships, the servers would be even more laggy than they already are since we'd have a ton more packets being sent back and forth.
You get the hang of the double clicking. I often fly fast ships which means having to use manual controls, and I do just fine.
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Diek Ran
Amarr
Autonums
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Posted - 2008.02.15 17:31:00 -
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Originally by: Siigari Kitawa
In reference to the thread, yeah I too wanted joystick controls, but I've been here for years and it's still really cool :D I just wish it was actually DOUBLE-CLICKING and not "click until you start moving."
/signed
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Nyx Opet
Caldari
Top Secret Robot Alliance
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Posted - 2008.02.15 18:22:00 -
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if you want that sort of 'twitch' combat you should check out Infinity
will beat the socks out of eve i think.
btw there is a combat prototype. its very fun when there are a bunch of people on the server.
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Zeba
Minmatar
Pator Tech School
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Posted - 2008.02.16 07:06:00 -
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Edited by: Zeba on 16/02/2008 07:06:56
Originally by: Nyx Opet
will beat the socks out of eve i think.
Yeah. I hear there is this remote tribe out in amazonia that has the women chew up leftover meat and veggies and spit it into a gourd to ferment and make alchohol. They say it beats the socks off a fine single malt whiskey.
Originally by: Nice Guy
This means that the writer epicaly fails at english.
Irony. So delicious. |
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