silentsammy wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 09:29:
One thing that has kept me from trying this game is that I assume you need a good joystick for the dogfighting. Is it required or can a mouse/keyboard do the trick?

Plus what is the best mods that you guys can suggest?

Thanks in advance.

Both m/kb and joysticks work fine. I just use m/kb, that way I don't have to switch when I'm flying or when I'm docked.

As for Mods, I'd have to check my folder, since it's been awhile since I've played. MARS is pretty much invaluable (it makes your turrets actually DO something), and if you're into building big-ass complexes, the "Complex Cruncher" is a godsent.

Stuff that I've also run are the "Kill all small rocks" script (which gets rid of the 100 trillion small asteroids that absolutely murder your framerate) as well as one of the dozens of "No Fog" scripts.

Improved Boarding is pretty much a must if you do a lot of boarding, since without it, boarding is just an excercise in sheer, utter fucking frustration. How Egosoft ever let their shitfest that is boarding through QA is beyond belief. This script fixes it, at least to the extent that it's possible to be fixed. Personally I find the whole boarding thing to be utterly boring. I tend to just cheat myself a hoard of L5 marines, since I don't have the patience to train them for 50 realtime hours to get them to L5, only to watch them die on the fucking hull of an M6.

And I downloaded a really nice White Star Mod the last time I played. I remember it being pretty damn sweet.

I'd recommend reading Egosoft's modding forum for a few hours to see what you might like.

Sigh, now I want to replay X...


Creston