I think it'd be really useful to have a set of impulse hotkeys like we have for setting different shield reinforcements. Having hotkeys for Stop, 1/4 impulse, 1/2 impulse, 3/4 impulse, and Full Impulse would be really useful in the heat of battle.
Every time I attack an enemy group, I fly in at full speed, then turn and cut to 1/2 until my broadsides take the shields down, then cut to 1/4 to turn towards them. Using the mouse on the slider to do this gets frustrating because a lot of the time you can't even find the cursor on the screen because there's so much going on.
Pretty much everything except engine speeds are hotkeyed. It's about the only function you can't do from the keyboard. (Yes, I know you can throttle up and down, but it's slow and who wants to be staring at the speed bar in the middle of a battle?)
I have the throttle up bound to my 4th mouse button and throttle down to the 5th so its pretty convenient, but it couldnt hurt to have some more keybinds.
I think it'd be really useful to have a set of impulse hotkeys like we have for setting different shield reinforcements. Having hotkeys for Stop, 1/4 impulse, 1/2 impulse, 3/4 impulse, and Full Impulse would be really useful in the heat of battle.
Every time I attack an enemy group, I fly in at full speed, then turn and cut to 1/2 until my broadsides take the shields down, then cut to 1/4 to turn towards them. Using the mouse on the slider to do this gets frustrating because a lot of the time you can't even find the cursor on the screen because there's so much going on.
Pretty much everything except engine speeds are hotkeyed. It's about the only function you can't do from the keyboard. (Yes, I know you can throttle up and down, but it's slow and who wants to be staring at the speed bar in the middle of a battle?)
Q reduces speed by 1/4, E increases speed by 1/4, R toggles full/stop, shift-R toggles Full Impulse.
Q reduces speed by 1/4, E increases speed by 1/4, R toggles full/stop, shift-R toggles Full Impulse.
Still would like to be able to fine tune it by other increments than 1/4... without having to put my nose on the screen and trying to hit the sweet spot with my mouse pointer on that tiny throttle bar
Otherwise atm I set mouse_wheel_up to throttle up; and mouse_wheel_down to throttle down; dont really care for camera zoom; it changes less than my speed and works just as well on the other mouse buttons... just like to roll the wheel to speed up/down
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Q reduces speed by 1/4, E increases speed by 1/4, R toggles full/stop, shift-R toggles Full Impulse.
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I want voice control. "One quarter impulse", "Half impulse" and stuff like that.
Still would like to be able to fine tune it by other increments than 1/4... without having to put my nose on the screen and trying to hit the sweet spot with my mouse pointer on that tiny throttle bar
Otherwise atm I set mouse_wheel_up to throttle up; and mouse_wheel_down to throttle down; dont really care for camera zoom; it changes less than my speed and works just as well on the other mouse buttons... just like to roll the wheel to speed up/down