[rolleyes] Got bored again.
Part of the trouble with trying to effectively bind keyboard keys, joystick axes, etc. in Elite Dangerous is that (a) there is not a single, all-in-one-place list of descriptions for all of the control bindings (at least, I haven't seen one). I can only select one control binding at a time in Options>Controls and so can only see one control description at a time. Another problem is that (b) whoever was in charge of creating these descriptions was high as a kite when it was done. I mean, some of these controls have duplicate descriptions even though they clearly control different things.
So anyway like I said, I was bored . . . and frustrated so I copied all of the control bindings and descriptions out of Elite Dangerous Options>Controls and created an Excel spreadsheet mapping all of the descriptions with the controls. I tried to correct some of them for instance, there are a couple that are described as X/Y axis controls when they clearly (from their labels) control only the X or the Y axis. Where I could figure it out I made the corrections to the descriptions. I also tried to make the descriptions a bit more consistent with each other i.e.: I attempted to make give similar controls similar descriptions. The spreadsheet is complete as of 11/06/2018.
This is a first draft, I have only just printed it out to go through and re-edit the descriptions. The type is very small because, since I was breaking the pages up to group different categories of controls together on their respective pages it became difficult to conserve paper. I do wish Frontier had been more consistent when they created the Controls page in the first place but, you can download the list here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZqycCjin18cFHue9LGNpmxpmgQNv5owd/view?usp=sharing
EDIT: I managed to get it down to 11 pages by removing a bunch of extra line breaks. Harder to read but conserves paper and ink.
Items in red I consider to be fairly glaring errors and I welcome any constructive input and/or corrections. o7
Part of the trouble with trying to effectively bind keyboard keys, joystick axes, etc. in Elite Dangerous is that (a) there is not a single, all-in-one-place list of descriptions for all of the control bindings (at least, I haven't seen one). I can only select one control binding at a time in Options>Controls and so can only see one control description at a time. Another problem is that (b) whoever was in charge of creating these descriptions was high as a kite when it was done. I mean, some of these controls have duplicate descriptions even though they clearly control different things.
So anyway like I said, I was bored . . . and frustrated so I copied all of the control bindings and descriptions out of Elite Dangerous Options>Controls and created an Excel spreadsheet mapping all of the descriptions with the controls. I tried to correct some of them for instance, there are a couple that are described as X/Y axis controls when they clearly (from their labels) control only the X or the Y axis. Where I could figure it out I made the corrections to the descriptions. I also tried to make the descriptions a bit more consistent with each other i.e.: I attempted to make give similar controls similar descriptions. The spreadsheet is complete as of 11/06/2018.
This is a first draft, I have only just printed it out to go through and re-edit the descriptions. The type is very small because, since I was breaking the pages up to group different categories of controls together on their respective pages it became difficult to conserve paper. I do wish Frontier had been more consistent when they created the Controls page in the first place but, you can download the list here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZqycCjin18cFHue9LGNpmxpmgQNv5owd/view?usp=sharing
EDIT: I managed to get it down to 11 pages by removing a bunch of extra line breaks. Harder to read but conserves paper and ink.
Items in red I consider to be fairly glaring errors and I welcome any constructive input and/or corrections. o7
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