Sometimes its the little annoyances in a game, or anything else for that matter, that drive you nuts. In an effort to make the game better, and to maybe save the wee bit of sanity I have left, I offer, the little things that annoy me. I hope other posters will offer their own and this thread can be a great source of polish feedback for the devs.
Coms open = engines stop! This is probably the thing that annoys me the most. For the time or two it has been useful, its a real annoyance every day. Its totally awesome for a com channel to open in the middle of a battle and your ship comes to a complete stop, or my favorite, running away from an exploding cube at the end of a B'tran mission, to have the com open and have me eat the warp core breach damage. Or even trying to get my dailies while traveling to where I need to go to do them. Please, at least make it an option to not have to come to a complete stop!
Space Looting: Please greatly increase the range of space looting, and add auto-loot as an option. Having to loot isn't a big deal in ground mission, where its really easy to move to loot and stop on it to loot, but it gets annoying in space.
Mission stage advancement in groups: don't advance a mission until all the team member accept the next part if you have to do so via dialog. Its awesome for the next attack to come in and alpha strike you to death while you are at full stop reading a dialog.
Coms in groups: Please don't reopen the com when I have finished talking to the NPC because a team mate hasn't. Having to close the window 5 times isn't fun.
Primary Weapon: I don't know what decides which of my two weapons for ground combat is my primary weapon, but currently it isn't me. Either make it based on the paperdoll slot, or something we can set via a right click menu, because having to swap my weapon every time I land in a ground mission gets old.
Throttle adjustment via hotkey: the hotkey moves the throttle in 25% increments, it would be nice if the increments were smaller, maybe 10%.
If I'm understanding some of your issues then I think I can help with a couple of them. To allow you to move during contact dialogue all you have to do is enable this setting: Game Menu -> Options -> Controls -> Keep moving during contact dialogue: ON
As far as deciding which is your primary ground weapon I always found that the weapon on top of the character status screen was the primary and the second one is the secondary. That being said, I avoid ground missions like the plague so I suppose it's possible that it defaults to whichever you swapped to last. Either way, the weapon you want to start out with goes in the top slot for sure.
I'm incredibly annoyed by the fact that I can't adjust the direction of the camera by using the arrow keys. I don't like the mouse for this. If someone knows of a way to bind left and right camera panning to the arrow keys they would be my hero! Anyway, I hope that helps a little bit.
Rexy you can fix your throttle adjustment by hitting you escape key and going into options then selecting the keybinds tab. Make sure you are in region [space] and not region [ground]. Once on region [space] type this in:
/bind Q throttleadjust .10
/bind E throttleadjust -.10
the default setting is:
/bind Q throttleadjust .25 (this is for forward throttle)
and
/bind E throttleadjust -.25 (this is for reverse throttle)
This should fix your throttleing issues.
As for the keep moving during contact dialog.
I believe again in the options menu under the controls tab. There are some radio buttons that you can turn on and off. There is one labeled "Keep moving during contact dialog" I believe turning this on will keep you moving during the dialog.
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As far as deciding which is your primary ground weapon I always found that the weapon on top of the character status screen was the primary and the second one is the secondary. That being said, I avoid ground missions like the plague so I suppose it's possible that it defaults to whichever you swapped to last. Either way, the weapon you want to start out with goes in the top slot for sure.
I'm incredibly annoyed by the fact that I can't adjust the direction of the camera by using the arrow keys. I don't like the mouse for this. If someone knows of a way to bind left and right camera panning to the arrow keys they would be my hero! Anyway, I hope that helps a little bit.
/bind Q throttleadjust .10
/bind E throttleadjust -.10
the default setting is:
/bind Q throttleadjust .25 (this is for forward throttle)
and
/bind E throttleadjust -.25 (this is for reverse throttle)
This should fix your throttleing issues.
As for the keep moving during contact dialog.
I believe again in the options menu under the controls tab. There are some radio buttons that you can turn on and off. There is one labeled "Keep moving during contact dialog" I believe turning this on will keep you moving during the dialog.
Hope that fixes some of your issues.
I will say I've tried the weapon in both slots, and it doesn't seem to matter.