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Erom Gary:
For pilots today, you have to either scroll or press 1-2-3-4 keys to select the piloting tool you wish to use. Altough, when currently "holding" a piloting tool, you are actively using it until you switch back to the steering wheel icon while in-game flying.

Something more practial and viable I can think of is to add an option for pilots, where you can press and hold one of the 1-4 keys to use a piloting tool for the amount of time you want to hold it.


When releasing one of the keys, you will automatically stop using the piloting tool currently bound to it and switch back to the steering wheel icon. Almost the same system when using the stamina on every class, but implemented to a pilots toolbar.

I'll be honest myself that I am a clumsy pilot when managing the toolbar, and I find it slightly disturbing when you have to manually switch back and forth with steering wheel icon and pilot ability.


Any thoughts/suggestions you'd like to share folks?

Omniraptor:
I like it. It prevents you from forgetting you have a tool enabled which can be disastrous.

One caveat is that you run out of fingers pretty quickly when trying to steer, use voicechat, adjust throttle, adjust altitude, look at the map, and hold down a pilot tool key. Plus it would get mildly annoying for long kerosene burns. However the benefits outweigh the drawbacks definitely.

Schwalbe:
GOIO doesn't register more than 3 (I don't remember exactly, though sometimes not enough) keyboard buttons pressed at the same time. I know because when I usually try to make a very tight manevour, while switching the throttle and trying to communicate with my crew, the exceeding button just don't register, hence I sometimes end up still burning 'shine even though my brain registered turning it off by the press of the button.

BlackenedPies:
It might be useful as an option for some people, but holding down the botton would slow you down by at least making you change finger positions and at worst limit your commands. For the meantime I'd recommend trying a button like Alt as your 1 key so you don't have to move much. Ideally you need to be able to use your movement, throttle, voice, stamina, and number keys simultaneously and you can't do that with the number keys anyways. My favorite gaming peripheral is a mouse with two side buttons, and my 1234 keys are Space Mouse3 Mouse4 Q

Shwalbe I couldn't recreate a key limit by pressing 2 directions, crew voice, jump, map, and tab

Fynx:
Your solution is very simple and convenient, and it would prevent the pilot from forgetting about tools.
However, like Blackened wrote, people put as many functions on mouse as possible to decrease the number of actions left hand has to make.
That's why everything that puts additional pressure on the left hand, not increasing efficiency whatsoever, has a purely negative impact on pilot's performance.


--- Quote from: Schwalbe on January 29, 2016, 11:45:32 am ---GOIO doesn't register more than 3 (I don't remember exactly, though sometimes not enough) keyboard buttons pressed at the same time. I know because when I usually try to make a very tight manevour, while switching the throttle and trying to communicate with my crew, the exceeding button just don't register, hence I sometimes end up still burning 'shine even though my brain registered turning it off by the press of the button.

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You're sure it's about the game itself and not about the keyboard? I used to play on laptop and had no key locking issues. When I started playing on PC with normal keyboard I had lots of that happening all the time.

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