You wouldn't even be
able to fire them all yourself if (like on a capital ship) some fire to the left and others to the right.
Some of the guns would constantly be unable to bear under manual control.
However, if you put the point defense guns "on auto", you could manually control the ship's main armament - in the arc where they
can fire.
Gomisan wrote:3) Steering. Should be totally independant of the 2 above controls. Joystick or Keyboard operations control yaw, roll and pitch.
Once mouselook is de-coupled from the fixed-forward view, that would be as simple as having a Fly This Way key. (I'm christening the feature Gazz FTW!)
You hold down FTW, mouselook (drag) into a new direction, and release... the ship starts turning towards that new heading while you either control the gunnery or deal with the fleet's maneuvers. Takes less than a second to accurately program a new course.
A click
without dragging the mouse to a new heading gets you back to normal aim-following control.
Since that would amount to a key that does nothing but
stop the updating of the ship's aim point when "locked", it's a very safe bet that we'll get it. =)
It's not the Newtonian physics that you asked for but it's a super quick way of having the ship fly / turn towards one direction while you look around, shoot, or use the fleet controls.
While in the fleet control (or other?) windows, holding that key could temporarily clear those windows and let you assign a new instant-course... and then you release the key and continue what you were doing.
Unlike every other game I know you would be able to have tactical fleet control while having the ability to order a course change literally on a moment's notice! Without even interrupting your "real" job as fleet admiral!
A game that (finally!) gets "flying capital ships" right? Mind-boggling!
If you had more than one controller, say joystick + mouse, you could control course and view separately - but there are very few people who can
actually handle this in 3D and realtime. =)
There is no "I" in Tea. That would be gross
.