Add hold option for landing gear. (or make cargo hatch require no power)

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Some context: You can control a thruster boost by using the cargo hatch or the landing gear. Having any of these out prevents your ship absolute velocity from increasing. This is especially useful to maneuver an agile ship into the blind spot of a less agile ship and keep there. Boosting without using cargo scoop or landing gear makes you often overshoot the target, creating too much distance, and thus letting the enemy ship get their guns aligned on you.

The problem is then the following. The landing gear requires no power to work, but the cargo hatch does (0.6MW is quite something). The cargo hatch has built in HOLD keybind functionality in the game, but the landing gear does not. Thus, players that use a script to create a manual HOLD key behavior for the landing gear get an advantage. They can use a HOLD behavior boost breaker while having 0.6MW of extra power plant to spare. Which let's you change powerplant settings to have better thermals etc..

I personally have a way to make such a script, but I think it would be nice if the game supported it by itself.

I think it would be a small change to allow us to set landing gear keybind behavior to HOLD, which the game currently does not support.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
CMDR iLikeCookiesQ said:
Some context: You can control a thruster boost by using the cargo hatch or the landing gear. Having any of these out prevents your ship absolute velocity from increasing. This is especially useful to maneuver an agile ship into the blind spot of a less agile ship and keep there. Boosting without using cargo scoop or landing gear makes you often overshoot the target, creating too much distance, and thus letting the enemy ship get their guns aligned on you.

The problem is then the following. The landing gear requires no power to work, but the cargo hatch does (0.6MW is quite something). The cargo hatch has built in HOLD keybind functionality in the game, but the landing gear does not. Thus, players that use a script to create a manual HOLD key behavior for the landing gear get an advantage. They can use a HOLD behavior boost breaker while having 0.6MW of extra power plant to spare. Which let's you change powerplant settings to have better thermals etc..

I personally have a way to make such a script, but I think it would be nice if the game supported it by itself.

I think it would be a small change to allow us to set landing gear keybind behavior to HOLD, which the game currently does not support.
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Players using a script to control the cargo hatch are breaking the ToS.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Dillon Fallon said:
That's going to be pressing one button for two separate actions, so yeah, straight to Satan's used underwear basket for being caught doing that one.
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just saying 🤷‍♂️ . If you want to hear my personal opinion, that's a classic "I want it all" situation. Want to do advanced maneuvers using the cargo hatch? Deal with the power draw.
 

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Helmut Grokenberger said:
just saying 🤷‍♂️ . If you want to hear my personal opinion, that's a classic "I want it all" situation. Want to do advanced maneuvers using the cargo hatch? Deal with the power draw.
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You can already do it without a script, there is just no hold button option for it. You can do these flight maneuvers with the landing gear, but you have to press the button once to deploy it and then press it again to retract, which is less suitable for its use. EDIT: And without cost to power draw, since the landing gear requires no power
 
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