How Do You Fly your Spacecraft?

[Tank Buddy]

I was thinking today, and I realized that I probably could never go back to using a keyboard to fly my rockets. Ever since I got my Logitech joystick, I have barely used the keyboard. That got me wondering about the rest of the community.

I should add that with my joystick there is a built in throttle, which allows me to go from 0%-100% and anything in between (literally smaller increments) instantaneously.

Edited May 25, 2014 by Tank Buddy

[SlimeCrusher]

I play with a keyboard, i never had a joystick so that may explain that

[Tortoise]

Keyboard. Never even thought about a joystick.

[Fr3Runn3r]

I play with keyboard and mouse, but I really want to get a joystick soon

[Pecan]

Keyboard :-( All of my best toys are refusing to play for one reason or another since I upgraded OS. One day I'll get around to patching them somehow.

Force-feedback hooked to KerbQuake would be cool.

[Jon Tash]

How do you fly your spacecraft? You ask?

I fly it with style! ...And a keyboard.

I have a joystick and a gamepad (PS3) and didn't like how it turned out so I stick to the simple keyboard and mouse.

[Overfloater]

I've been raised by keyboard & mouse and will forever be faithful to them!

[blizzy78]

This poll needs a "voice commands" option.

[Shadoworgon]

i use keyboard and mouse, i have a joystick and tried it once, but some of the axis were backwards and i didnt feel like fixing it also couldnt get all the buttons to fit on joystick lol

[Starwhip]

This poll needs a "voice commands" option.

"W"

[speech Recognition presses U, toggling lights]

"No, W!"

[sR presses U again]

[Explosion as upside-down spaceplane is destroyed]

I play with a keyboard. My Logitech joystick doesn't like KSP: it's not centered.

[regex]

The only joystick I own is a twenty-plus-year-old CH Flightstick two-button and, since my laptop doesn't have a gameport, I'm not likely to use it again any time soon.

[Demon_82]

This is almost the only game wich includes flight where I use keyboard and mouse instead of my joystick. I tried it but it didn't work as precisely as needed.

In any other game I can't even fly straight without my joystick xD

[Duke23]

Mouse and keyboard at the moment, which feels normal enough with rockets. Now that I'm trying to play around with planes a little more I may need to dust off the old Extreme 3D. And subsequently buy a different one because surely there's a reason it hasn't been used in a year.

[razark]

Spacecraft: almost always keyboard.

Planes: has to be joystick.

I don't fly planes very often, and dragging the stick over to use for spacecraft is a bit of a hassle with the piles of stuff on my desk. I have considered stealing the joystick off the kids' computer (they never use it anyway) and setting one for rotation and one for translation.

[OptiSTR]

This poll needs a "voice commands" option.

Haha cant wait for the day that some game developer will implement such a great feature!

It can make multi tasking so much easier!

Or better yet to develop an OS with an AI that you can talk to (like in "Her" movie!)

[cantab]

Keyboard. And not mouse, that's just for moving the camera and opening the menus.

If I wanted to get serious about planes I might give a controller a try, but I think KSP doesn't have full controller support on Linux, so I don't know if I'd be able to get the analogue sticks working. For rockets the keyboard does just fine.

[Tank Buddy]

I've been raised by keyboard & mouse and will forever be faithful to them!

I was too, but the joystick gives so much fine control that I'm never going back :c

[Michaelo90]

Keyboard and mouse. I tried using my ancient joystick once, but i didn't get full input when I pushed it all the way and one axis wasn't registered by the game at all, so there was no point in trying. Maybe I should think about buying a new one

[RocketPilot573]

Spacecraft (including planes in space): Keyboard/Mouse

Planes: Joystick

Other: I sometimes use mouse/keyboard AND the joystick throttle lever, it has instant response time, while holding shift takes several seconds to throttle up. This is extremely useful for landing in high gravity.

[cesarcurado]

Keyboard + Mouse.

I never had the wish to throw some money to get a decent joystick, specially when the prices are high in here.

Also if I did I would probably use it 3-6 times and then rarely again.

[Vanamonde]

Spacecraft require the fine control of the keyboard, while aircraft require the constant-analog-input of a joystick.

[Killerdude8]

I tried playing with my Xbox Controller, But I couldn't get it to work, So I ultimately gave up on it.

So, Keyboard and Mouse for me.

[TimePeriod]

Keyboard and mouse, thou it appears my mouse is trying to run away..

Oi! Get back here! D:<

[razark]

Keyboard and mouse, thou it appears my mouse is trying to run away..

Oi! Get back here! D:<

I don't have a mouse, but I tried a guinea pig. (Well, now that I think about it, it was the pig named "Mouse", so take that for what it's worth.)

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I guess I will not be going to space today.

Edited May 25, 2014 by razark

[Xavven]

I use a joystick and throttle. I find it much easier to control everything, especially landers. It's much easier to fine tune your attitude and thrusters to reach a stable hover just before touchdown.