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nobody2 wrote:

yaw is controlled usually by foot pedals, at least on choppers it's that way.

Pitch and roll by the stick.

very simply A yaw motion is a side to side movement of the nose of the aircraft (stand still and turn in circles, that's yaw)

A pitch motion is an up or down movement of the nose of the aircraft

A roll motion is an up and down movement of the wings of the aircraft

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I know that is normal, but that isn't how it has been said in multiple sources. It is as follows:

"The stick itself controls the yaw and pitch of the craft; if you have separate rudder controls, they'll handle rolling the craft left and right." -IGN

You can find it

here

and

here

the FAQ wasn't guesses but info pulled directly from interviews, dev responses and actual test runs of the system by gaming sites and magazines.

All X-Wing games had roll on the Z-axis/"foot rudder" and yaw on the Y-axis. Which is not intuitive and plain wrong. If they insist on keeping that weirdo X-Wing control scheme, I hope they'll allow remapping of the controls, otherwise I'm likely no customer for JTLS. Try to fly with screwed up controls if you fly other sims a lot. Not going to work. The only reason I managed to play the old X-Wing games in the past was that I got into flightsims after them.

Good questions, rach. Here's the latest:

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rach wrote:

1. Will I be forced to fight in space? Meaning, if I just want to use my ship to go from planet to planet will I be opening myself up to being attack just by being in space?

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We don't know yet.

The best guess we can make right now goes something like this:If you're strictly neutral then PvP rules (albeit modified for space) may still protect you.

However, you may be required to take on Imperial and/or Rebel ships to go up the Privateer skill tree. Some folks here don't believe that you'll ever be forced to engage in PvP combat, but until we know more about the Privateer profession this will remain unresolved.

(A related question: If you go up the Privateer tree, what happens to your otherwise "neutral" character on the ground? Are you KOS to anyone?)

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2. Will I be able to use my ship as a transport? i.e. Load it up with more items than I can carry on my person, and/or passgeners?

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Good news here -- the developers have said that you'll be able to drop items inside your multi-player ship just like you can in your house. So basically any multi-person ship can be used as a freighter, although that mode of gameplay isn't directly supported -- basically space will be dangerous for everyone but without any particular rewards for doing space-based commerce.

We don't know the item limits per ship, of course, nor do we know if vendors can be created inside ships (although we do know that crafting stations will be supported). Unless the developers decide to share this information with us, we'll just have to find this out when JtL is released.

Must... control... urge to... know more!

--Flatfingers

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wazzadoin wrote:

Will Smugglers be the only ones who get to use the YT-1300? (giving the smuggling community a nice present for the delay of revamp)

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No. Anyone can get it once they get high enough in their certifications.