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McGyverCP

McGyverCP
My brain is fried...I didn't truly realize how much more there is to the x56 than the old HOTAS One...Thank god for those who have gone before and not walked out the airport in their birthday suits in frustration.

One...The X56 has what seems like 12.7 billion "joysticks"...because that is what they are referred to in the control set up in the game. And at first I thought I was losing my mind...How can their be two "Joystick 1"s...well because there are two "joysticks" moron...even if the one joystick is a throttle.

Two...It doesn't help that ED has decided to throw in Regular controls, Alternate controls, and any other thing that they think may be confusing. While there are multiple controls for the same controls, you don't need all of them...Yeah, that was supposed to be contradictory, because the control panel is contradictory in nature, at least to me.

Three...There are two columns in the control panel...At first it didn't make sense...why are there some joystick (#) in one column and some in the other column. Then it struck me..."Hey these are listing the Right JOYSTICKS (stick) and Left JOYSTICKS (throttle) buttons. Sweet! Got this under control. Then I saw one where it listed Power balancing...J11, J12, J14 were in one column, but J13 was in another column...but all four were on the same Hat Stick. Sigh...

Four...I believe it was Chris Simon who created a blank form for the X55 (which is basically the X56 layout). I Love You Man!!! This makes annotating actual button function to the joystick easier. There was another person (and that CMDR's name escapes me at the moment but THANK YOU) who figured out what the ED J1,J2, J3, J4, etc. correspond to on the stick and throttle. When you look at the Logitech Software to program the buttons, they are listed as Button1, Button 2, CastleHat U, etc...While some of these are easy to figure out...Some aren't. Between the three pics (One of throttle, one of stick, and one with blank fill in boxes) it really helps.

Five...I am slowly working on this thing...figuring out what layout will work and what won't. But at least I am flying again. While I'm not ready to jump into a HRES yet, or try to Core Mine an asteroid, I am getting use to it...Like getting checked out in a new plane with different controls.

Take Care Commanders! o7
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
The two columns - so that you can assign two different physical inputs to most logical functions (see your point two). In my case, I have (for example) the menu controls on keyboard keys (WASD) as well as a modifier-hat key of my left stick.
I also have the throttle on my left stick (twist), on my right stick (scroll wheel) and on the default keyboard keys, which IIRC are also mapped somewhere in the WASD area. Any time when I push the (keyboard) throttle while I wanted to scroll through a (at that time, non-existing) menu, I tell myself that I will have to remove that mapping. So far, by the end of a play session, I've forgotten it.
 

Phongsalt

Phongsalt
Having returned from my trip to the roof i am currently wondering if i feel up to a similar trip down to the basement,but i've done enough slow boating in company,so i bought the crew a new K2 to runaround in whilst i slip into the DBX and head out for parts unknown.

It turns out my exec has quite a grudge against pirates and insisted on gunz,which is a real faff,cos if i don't switch 'em on before we change places,she just bleats 'i can't do that,commander.',and if i do switch them on she increases my combat stats,regardless of whether we get blown up or not.(she do go full on banzai batshart on em,i'll give her that.)
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Ant hill

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Went to Borann while listening to the Drew Wager stream. Trying to beat the 2 BCr threshold but finding laser mining a bit boring. Ironically then, I might kit the Python with a sub-surface tool, since five class 2 mining lasers lead to a rapid overheat anyanyway. Looks cool though, might take some screenies first.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I'm out in a little corner of space, finding undiscovered systems. I get into one and, as I'm using the FSS, I can see there's a degraded emission. That's odd, thinks me, there's no civilisation anywhere so what gives? Must be some poor explorer ran afoul of something.

I scoot on over, switch on the night vision just for funsies and I see this:

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I keep thinking "Asteroids" and that I might see a flying saucer in a minute. I blame the isolation.
 

Codger

Codger
Greetings, from the bridge of my Fleet Carrier! I have a crew that can fly the ship for me, or I can stand at the console myself and fly it wherever I choose. I can even fly it into battle if I like.

It's HUGE. You can see my fighter docked there on one of the small pads. My carrier can, of course, carry a whole fleet of ships. It even has internal storage for more ships. And drones, too. And service crew. And marines to board other ships with.

During a battle, I can either command the carrier myself, or turn the console over to my pilot, slip down the elevator to the pad where my fighter is docked, jump in the fighter and join the battle from there.

For exploration, I can take my entire fleet with me to the farthest reaches of space.

I can load up with cargo and take that with me, too.

Too bad it's in a different game, eh?

All we get in ED is an unmoving UI with some buttons and dropdown menus. It's just so...lame. That's the only word for it. Lame.

I've always been an FDEV fan. It's becoming harder for me to stay the course.

I sure hope New Era changes things for the better, because right now I'm pretty bummed out at the direction of things. And I don't care for my current attitude :)

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