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  1. Shadow Reaper

    Starfarer Backdoor

    You realize the day they allow you to lock the doors they'll make boarding charges available, and when people open the door that way they don't close properly afterward.
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    Starfarer Backdoor

    But what if we like the fact we can kill people and take their treasure?
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    Has there been any mention of gimbal weapons that auto-track their target?

    I'm pretty sure that is the problem with all ED, you're decoupled all the time. Is supposed to be easy to fix with Viagra though.
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    In Mechwarrior it is much simpler since you have fewer degrees of freedom, but the standard tactic for close in combat (brawler) is always run at full speed in a curve with your turret turned at 90*, and tap into the curve as you run in order to keep the crosshairs on your target. This actually...
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    That's all the convincing I need. I'll go for two sticks. Thanks guys!
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    That's what I'm talkiing about. So you can point your nose at the target and strafe right while you yaw left, and you essentially rotate around the target while keeping it in your sights. That's a brawler move! and exctly what I want. And if i understand, you can't do that effectively without...
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    Is anyone flying twin sticks and using peddals for throttle and reverse thrust (break)? I'm uncomfortable with the notion of three separate hand controls.
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    So it is fair to say, you can use yaw, pitch and roll controls at the same time as the three axis strafe controls quite easily with twin sticks, and really not easily at all with just one? I am thinking mostly of what to do with a Vanguard, but I would prefer to just learn one system that makes...
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    Perma Death

    CIG has said they know they can't punish people for dying in game by taking their finances, since a character's wealth can so easily be tied to what the player invested to play. If you put $1k in and die, they can't have your next character get only a fraction of that. They get your entire...
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    I appreciate all this, and congrats on the excellent racing!, but I still want to understand the advantage. Are you somehow both flying normal controls and straifing at the same time? You're obviously getting higher accelerations with twin sticks. What do you use the twin sticks for? And if...
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    Dual Hotas---HELP

    If you're not shooting a gimbal, what are the advantages of a dual stick over a stick and throttle? My concern with the 16000s is the buttons are all off the stick itself, and I really like the X56 throttle's button placements.
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    Xian Dildos

    Thanks for the warning. I didn't need much reason to skip this, hence I escape unscathed.
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    Weapon choices

    I have to wonder why anyone would carry a pistol if they had a rifle. Even a small SMG is so much more powerful than a pistol, I can't understand why you would ever draw the pistol. I thought that the combat movement base was built around encumbrance, and the more your arms and armor weighed...
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    Weapon choices

    I'm curious why anyone would carry a pistol as a secondary. Do the SMGs fail other than running out of ammo? Has anyone ever had a weapon failure?
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    Has there been any mention of gimbal weapons that auto-track their target?

    I do recall that both NPCs and AI would be available to turrets so they will be capable when not manned, but that PC manned turrets would be designed to always be more effective. My guess is if all you want is to make the turret functional, the NPC option will be more expensive over time and...
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    Okay so three of these, and three cards to drive them is. . .

    https://www.wpxi.com/news/national/samsung-unveils-the-wall-a-219-inch-micro-led-tv/903804452
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    Have you cleaned your PC today?

    Yes, that is the best method, but it is really not recommended to do this after you have turned the cats into bookends. Is mean to the books.
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    Okay so three of these, and three cards to drive them is. . .

    Yeah. Seems to me the best of all approaches is big screens and a head-mounted display that layers one image atop the other. So some info moves with your eyes when yiou turn your head and the background does not. Seems this woulds be the most convincing in tricking the brain over time.
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    Okay so three of these, and three cards to drive them is. . .

    Yeah, latency really is the issue and when I look it up, there is a note on wiki that no one includes this spec in their stats, and that some monitors have latency as long as 68ms, which is several frames at 60 fps. So in general there is no way to tell what the latency is it seems. Only way...
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    Okay so three of these, and three cards to drive them is. . .

    The problem with VR is you can't see your controls of any kind. I think VR is going to be better with games that you can manage with a gaming controller. USAF uses gaming controllers to fly drones, so it should be possible for flying a ship in SC, but I don't think that is the fashion. For...
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