Have you ever tried to keep your reticule on a moving object to maintain target lock while not looking at it? How about ensuring you add the pips to the sheilds and not the guns, while keeping an eye on your attacker and moving both the joystick AND the throttle.
Also have you ever heard of the oculus rift? Those who have or will buy a VR set will have major problems with this, because you are essentially blind to all else and there is no tactile feedback on a pad and THESE are the reasons Ozram said what he said, maybe you should have a little more thinking time before posting such a flippant and hostile reply.
The initial idea is sound for those who might use this, but the layout is all wrong. You need to completely remove all combat based instructions and have a layout that will have commands that are non survival critical.
*frantic dogfight* annnnd.... "damn I just jettisoned my rares instead of a heatsink"
Or you could use voiceattack and be rid of the fumbling.
I've been using a touch panel for ED (using a different system though) for over a year and I can tell you that if you have at least the IQ of a sponge you'll be able to handle glancing away momentarily. Car drivers do it all the time.
No, of course a rift user wouldn't use it, who suggested they would? This isn't done for rift, the OP has very generously shared his work for people who want a touch screen. Then again how many rift users ARE there? 5% of players? Oh and have you ever tried chatting by text while using a rift, equally difficult but i don't see you bagging keyboards. And perhaps you like talking to your computer, but I (like many others) play at night and have to be considerate of other members of the.household who may be sleeping, or simply don't want to hear me yelling at the computer. Some of us simply don't like voice control.
Seriously, get over it. If you don't want to use it that's fine, no-one said you have to but lay off the OP. He's put a bunch of effort into something he obviously enjoys using, and has kindly shared it with us for those who might also use it. He at no time suggested that you must replace voice recognition or rift with it, or that FDev remove support for all other controller in favour of his. The fact that his choice of HOTAS isn't one the most ridiculously expensive ones demonstrates that this is an option that might interest those who are unable or unwilling to invest large sums of cash into game gear, but have a tablet and would like something more customisable than a standard keyboard. In fact because it's just emulating keyboard commands there's no reason you can use this WITH a keyboard AND whatever other controller you want. You could even use it to set up text chat macros so you could send messages like "stand and deliver" with just the press of a button.
+1 for the OP. Nice effort.
