Making Ship Stay Still

[S1ash]

hmm, i dont know how many of you agree with this..but it would be nice somehow to be able to get your ship to stay still and not move around when your away from keyboard or something like that. Instead of having to click on an Energy Orb to stay still...

 

[peck]

i fully agree, there are also those times where being at you exact location would be best for many different reasons. (like waiting a certain mantis to come by and moveing in any direction would cause combat with other mantis)

 

[defacto]

Like a hover mode...

 

[Wolfsbane.]

I dont know how many people have made threads about this, but i think its safe to say that it makes sense to have a ship able to hover. i mean COME ON!!!!! these ships can FLY INTO SPACE! why cant they HOVER!!!

 

[defacto]

They can cheat advanced security systems... they can travel between starsystems... they can fire pulses of Antimatter disintegrating everything in it's way... but no, they haven't got an anchor.

 

[Wolfsbane.]

or maybe landing gear? i know a lot of people want this game to be as realistic as possible *disguises laugh by turning it into a loud cough* so just to please them, maybe put in landin gear, cause some people would complain that the engines are pointin the wrong way to hover. just a suggestion for those who like things realistic

 

[RaptorSkye2223]

they also don't have a reverse. Sure they can turn on a dime, but even my lawnmower has reverse. Kinda makes having an S key (or down arrow key) pointless.

 

[Wolfsbane.]

so maybe new ship controls: W=forward. A=left turn. D=right turn. S=reverse. X=land/hover.
Up arrow=forward. Left arrow=left turn. Right arrow=right turn. Down arrow=reverse. Pagedown/end/ctrl=land/hover.

 

[jonsey]

I dont think that this would be an option for the developpers because it might cause new unwanted problems somewhere else in the game.

I do however agree with Wolfsbane; when you're waiting for some particular mantis to appear on one specific spot you're using the keyboard to stay in the area. If you're lucky you be able to hover on cryonite or bp. But they do dissapear after few minutes.

Regardz

 

[TychoCelchu]

I support this idea. About the only programming glitch I can foresee is something where if you land your ship flat out disappears...but that's a worse case scenario.