People in the military who have been shot at, NEVER DO IT.

Also, EVE is a spaceship game where ships have a top speed in null grav (instead of real Newtonian physics), always re-orientate to level with "up" & "down", the planets/stations don't actually move, there are non existent metals that supposedly explode in atmosphere (tritanium, really?) except that ships that hold air are made out of them. . .and drugs are made from gas that is found in space instead of coca leaves from Colombia.

I want to be able to sig tank in DUST.

Also waiting for my DUST version of hotdropo'clock.

I can tell you right now why jump/strafe is stupid.

People in the military who have been shot at, NEVER DO IT.

So a game that is supposed to be a combat sim FPS kind of game should try to minimize it.

I know from experience that shooting while running orthogonal to your target (strafing) is very very hard to do.

IN real life you either A: go slower or B: hit a lot less often.

So I recommend that CCP implement some kind of hit to accuracy and speed while strafing. You should be able to recoup the accuracy by kneeling, and recoup the speed by sprinting. Firing from the hip while strafing should be barely effective, and aiming in should slow you down and get back some of the accuracy.

I like the OPs ideas. they make sense.

eh.. you're not running; you're just walking fast, and you can shoot just fine while doing that. I can shoot at a full sprint and dance my way over and around obstacles at the same time if I want, and I can do it with a bow rather than a gun too, and still hit my target.

I can't bunny hop while turning in a circle firing a gun bouncing sideways spinning dizzy spins of bunny madness however.

edit, I like your idea of recouping accuracy though. There is a loss to accuracy expected while you are doing any movement while shooting short of a slow, steady walk. Not 75% as suggested in the OP, but a fractional loss that increases with inexperience and increased movement.

Any movement on top of regular movement, (such as bunny hopping or jump-spinning), will increase this loss marginally to drastically, but a lot of that is also personal sense of equilibrium, such as when you are jump-spinning, which will knock out almost all of most anyone's sense of equilibrium.

The need to balance through, is also a key factor, and any movement requires balance. In many cases, the requirement to use arm position and counter rotation to stop spin through 'arm-waving,' (for lack of a better term), preclude the ability to use a gun or aim with it except maybe to fire a short burst of spray and pray at opportune moments when coordination of movements allows it.

FPS mechanics don't really allow for those real requirements of physical inertia dampening, balance, or anything really. You'll notice that while the characters are airborne, (spinning or otherwise), they are still in a standing or crouched firing position or even walking as if on a solid surface in some cases.

Key method to enjoying FPS games is not to notice any of this stuff most of the time or to simply suspend disbelief long enough to enjoy the game.

Yeah, no.

Lots of games use strafing. Humans have the ability to move in all sorts of directions using these things called legs. They also use them to jump, run, walk, do these things backwards, etc etc. If there isn't a shooter that doesn't allow you to strafe, chances are no one plays it and its not very good. Every FPS I've played uses strafe. It's a function that is here to stay.

If i want to play in a straight line and feel like i'm moving a truck, i just go play BF3.....
And decreasing hip fire accuracy while straffing ? Do you want a game where you just stand still shooting at people ? Oo