So I was playing around with Voiceattack last night, and it suddenly occured to me that you could fly a ship almost entirely with voiceattack.
It wouldn't be good for dogfighting, but something like a Cutter, which doesn't dogfight anyway, might be quite fun. I'm imagining a Cutter with turret weapons all over, flown entirely with voice commands ("helm, 3 points to starboard!", "Helm, 30 degree roll to port", "Fire at will").
Rather than trying to fly entirely by replicating each flightstick input with seperate commands, some commands could perform entire maneuvers, such as setting throttle to 50%, then combining the required number of seconds of vertical pitch for a 180 degree turn with a few bursts of vertical thrusters, all activated by a single command ("Bring us about!"). With a bit of practice and experience, and a lot of trial and error, more complex maneuvers could be added for specific situations. Like perhaps a long looping roll, into an FA
ff boost turn designed to keep an approaching enemy in sight of the top mounted turrets in "joust" type situations, using the Cutter's speed to exit the maneuver at high speed to make it difficult for small nimble ships to get close in behind the Cutter.
Has anyone tried anything like this?
Would there be a better ship for it than the Cutter, bearing in mind that exclusively using voice commands would make conventional dogfighting virtually impossible?
It wouldn't be good for dogfighting, but something like a Cutter, which doesn't dogfight anyway, might be quite fun. I'm imagining a Cutter with turret weapons all over, flown entirely with voice commands ("helm, 3 points to starboard!", "Helm, 30 degree roll to port", "Fire at will").
Rather than trying to fly entirely by replicating each flightstick input with seperate commands, some commands could perform entire maneuvers, such as setting throttle to 50%, then combining the required number of seconds of vertical pitch for a 180 degree turn with a few bursts of vertical thrusters, all activated by a single command ("Bring us about!"). With a bit of practice and experience, and a lot of trial and error, more complex maneuvers could be added for specific situations. Like perhaps a long looping roll, into an FA
ff boost turn designed to keep an approaching enemy in sight of the top mounted turrets in "joust" type situations, using the Cutter's speed to exit the maneuver at high speed to make it difficult for small nimble ships to get close in behind the Cutter.Has anyone tried anything like this?
Would there be a better ship for it than the Cutter, bearing in mind that exclusively using voice commands would make conventional dogfighting virtually impossible?
