This PvP Arena thing.

[bradLP560]

Wouldn't this be a good place to test different flight dynamics?
For instance, cold they have a server where the Yaw nerf could be switched off, so people could see once and for all how it affected combat rather than endless speculation about which is best.
Could be useful for all kinds of testing, or doesn't it work like that?

 

[Mr_Blastman]

Oh please no. Do not turn the yaw nerf off. All we need is a bunch of kids who want easy mode tasting it then crying for it to be undone and everything goes downhill after that. The yaw nerf is a good thing for gameplay.

 

[ZeeWolf]

The testing was done during Alpha/Beta last year. We actually had releases that allowed us to go up against each other in an environment with load-out tests.

As for the Yaw thing. It was actually tested internally by Frontier prior to the Alpha and they decided back then it was not what they wanted for their game. Best to read the developers comment on it here

Fast Yaw will never be a part of this game. You either have to accept that man will probably never sit in a flying space tin-can aiming fixed laser weapons at someone else, so it really doesn't matter. Or decide that it does matter because of pre-conceptions and argue about it on the forums

That said, CQC could be used to tweak flight mechanics in more subtle ways.

 

[bradLP560]

Well I personally didn't want the yaw changed, I just wondered if CQC would be a handy way for like minded people to experiment with different set ups.

 

[Jaeger]

Wouldn't this be a good place to test different flight dynamics?
For instance, cold they have a server where the Yaw nerf could be switched off, so people could see once and for all how it affected combat rather than endless speculation about which is best.
Could be useful for all kinds of testing, or doesn't it work like that?

It's a badly needed feature. The only problem being that it will be a separate mode and not integrated into the universe... which is odd considering Elite is a combat ranking and an arena would provide a competitive environment with myriad possibilities.

 

[Cody]

... considering Elite is a combat ranking...

<grins> Elite is not just a combat ranking...

 

[Ian Skippy]

Wouldn't this be a good place to test different flight dynamics?
For instance, cold they have a server where the Yaw nerf could be switched off, so people could see once and for all how it affected combat rather than endless speculation about which is best.
Could be useful for all kinds of testing, or doesn't it work like that?

Play X-rebirth. The flight model there should be a pretty good example of why ED is so great. And why I am not holding my breath for 'that other space game'. To each his own, but nerfed yaw is really a massive reason of why I like flying around in ED.

 

[Jaeger]

<grins> Elite is not just a combat ranking...

True there is Trading and Exploration ... but you are being pedantic.

 

[salad]

Hell naw

 

[Kramster]

Yaw is a non issue if you learn to use FA off/on combined with roll/pitch and boosting in combat.
The only time I notice yaw being an issue is when landing on outposts and even that is easily overcome by going nose down, rolling 180 then pitch back up.

 

[Cody]

... but you are being pedantic.

As it happens, I wasn't. I was kinda quoting from fiction - but I forgot to use italics!

 

[I and I Redeye]

Arena is not a playground, nor for testing mechanics we don't have to satisfy curiousity.

 

[xondk]

I don't get it really, people want to be turrets in space I guess? the yaw is what it is, because you need comparatively very little g-force to cause serious injury when it comes to movements such as yaw? so yeah?