The Missing Flight Dot

[Xenorak]

Its something I saw was missing in the PTU but thought it may have been a bug at the time. Formerly you would have a small dot when using gimbal lock, to indicate the direction of travel from your mouse, this was very helpful for making minor changes to a flight path or when trying to park in a tight spot.

As of 3.0 however its gone when using gimbal lock, and while I can say I'm already adjusting to it for combat, it isn't a smooth transition and I'm basically all over the place over-steering and clipping space rocks.

Is this troubling anyone else? Was the smallest dot in the universe really so important to us?

 

[Printimus]

The answer is always beer.

 

[Doc Shaftoe]

It would be a tremendous help for us non-flightstick pilots to bring back the little dot. Alternately they could introduce some kind of directional indicator like the one in Elite. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally knocked myself out of alignment because my mouse wasn't right where it needed to be.

 

[CosmicTrader]

Bring back the dot.....................................................

 

[FZD]

to indicate the direction of travel from your mouse, this was very helpful for making minor changes to a flight path or when trying to park in a tight spot.

Wait, what do you mean by "to park in a tight spot"?
Doesn't that work the same as any other kind of "parking"?
Namely:
1. Full thrust until your landing gear just about touches the ground,
2. ...
3. then climb out of the smoking wreckage.

It's easy to remember where you parked, I always park under the pillar of smoke.

 

[Xenorak]

It's easy to remember where you parked, I always park under the pillar of smoke.

But which smoke pillar is yours? There's usually several :p