CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.16 17:48:00 -
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....I promised myself I would NOT contribute or comment on anymore 'DROPSHIP CONTROLS or CAMERA" threads. (I need to keep my promises...)
But the fact that I haven't noticed your merc names much on the forum before makes me THINK that you might be new to dropship operating, so it's okay to place my suggestion. It's been said before, LOL
Most of the DS players have argued about the abandance of extra controller buttons available with the dropship, and how it's a perfect/simple opportunity to customize the setting availability, or activate flight-instrtument-based camera views, and of course to ALTER or MORPH the default camera view to "help" the *blank* better...
Even when we criticize CCP for their "next new change to dropships", I think the thing I want to praise them for is NOT giving in to the requests/suggestions you just made ...and believe me, we've ALL made requests like them before, because they on the surface seem like obvious and ideal ideas.
But I THINK, (and I personally hope CCP is seeing it this way too) that:
1--opening up the game to a "customizeable settings for dropship" threatens to make this "a game about The DROPSHIP" (should the armed-bus really get the lion's share of attention in a game about fighting on foot?)
2--extra HUD cues and flight-pilot-oriented instruments will lead to more fixation (and later demands) on scripting the DS to be an aeroplane for us frustrated plane enthusiasts
3--and that any suggestions we've made to "improve" the camera view were always a "ME" point of view... we never could reach an "WE" consensus,... there doesn't NEED to be a consensus bacause we each enjoy the freedom to operating the DS in our own navigation-centered or assault-centered ways,...but that there DOES need to be one truly DEFAULT camera view that we can each equally benefilt from--and each struggle equally to adjust to (with no custom or changeable properties no matter who or what variation is flying)
Point #3 was the most grueling thing we've suffered through (made CCP suffer through too), and I think 1.7 has finally kept us from losing any more sleep.
It's not that your ideas aren't sensible---THEY ARE GOOD, but.... God, I just would hate to open that door and go back there again. I'm hoping all the remaining DS hopefuls can struggle through with what meager assists the game gives them, and still become capable (maybe top notch?) without any tempting flight changing stuff. |