Do you switch W/S and I/K controls?

[John FX]

The first thing I do of I reinstall the game is to switch W/S and I/K in the key bindings so that up is up and down is down.

Do you do that, leave them as standard or don`t mind?

[Scarecrow88]

I believe as default they are set up to mimic the action of an aircraft joystick i.e. pulling back raises the nose and pushing forward lowers it. For anyone who flies or has flown, pressing W or I to go 'down' and S or K to go 'up' feels perfectly natural.

[Frank_G]

I like the pilot controls just the way they are. I find it much more intuitive to pull up and push down, than the other way 'round.

[Remkeau]

Most games involving flying use the default layout as KSP does, but give the option of inverting it. Whatever is most natural for you to press when you think: "GO UP! Don't crash on me now!" is preference and perfectly fine of course.

[KerbMav]

I keep them in the standard pilot setting too.

Funnily I use I to translate down with a ship, but I set W to up in EVA ...

[Decho]

Standard. Pulling up and pushing down is deeply ingrained into my expectations of controls; I always have to put gamepad sticks on 'inverted' so that it remains true there as well.

[WeirdCulture]

Standard. Pulling up and pushing down is deeply ingrained into my expectations of controls; I always have to put gamepad sticks on 'inverted' so that it remains true there as well.

They are games with pushing up and pulling down? Frightening

[Red Iron Crown]

I find that A/D for yaw rather than roll is more jarring (though admittedly more useful for a rocket). W/S are fine as they are for me. Really a personal preference thing.

[Alephzorg]

Other than configuring IJKL to rover controls, I'm fine with the stock settings.

[Diazo]

I switch just W/S, but that is so the navball lines up. That way I control 'towards' my target during launch.

As KSP is my game with 'flight' controls I've sunk my teeth into in a long time, I had no prior expectations.

I quickly learned to fly by the nav ball so I bound the keys accordingly.

D.

[NecroBones]

The default layout is perfectly natural for me. It's consistent with flight sims and the way aircraft controls function. (though admittedly, if it were following airplane controls, then A/D should roll and Q/E should yaw, since W/A/S/D is presumably emulating yoke, with rudder in Q/E, but the current layout is more consistent with other games).

[nadreck]

I like the default, though I can certainly attest to the rover control issues. The hardest part of the default for me is the EVA jet pack Shift/Ctrl ones. They seem wrong, but I am used to them now.

[merendel]

I leave rotational controls alone, I think they are fine as they are. I do however compleatly scrap the RCS translation controls and move them over to the numberpad. the physical placement of the keys they chose for RCS always drives me batty but there are other important keys in the area that I'd rather not move to fix it. I use 8,2,4,6 for up down left right, 5 for toggleing RCS and 7 and 1 for accelerate/decelerate. Spatially very logical for me and it also leaves my right hand closer to the mouse if I need to adjust my camera.

[Apollo91]

I leave W\S as they are for aircraft, but I make W up and S down, Lshift fowrard and ctrl backward in EVA. I don't know why, but that seems more natural.

[razark]

I use 8,2,4,6 for up down left right, 5 for toggleing RCS and 7 and 1 for accelerate/decelerate.

I do this as well, except for the 5. But now that you've mentioned it, I'll probably add that to my setup, and maybe a key for SAS, as well.

[Tortoise]

I usually keep mines as the default.

[Fizwalker]

I'm a big Flight-Sim fan so I'm used to pushing forward to pitch down and pulling back to pitch up. That said, I typically switch 'I' and 'K' for translation because that feels more intuitive to me.

[merendel]

I do this as well, except for the 5. But now that you've mentioned it, I'll probably add that to my setup, and maybe a key for SAS, as well.

Ironicly I dont actualy use that 5 for RCS toggle all that often. As I tend to have my left hand on the rotation keys at the same time as I'm useing the RCS just in case I need to correct for off ballance thrusters I end up useing R and T for SAS and RCS toggles. I do have the hotkey there and use it on occasion it just ended up being one of those great ideas I had while setting it up that didnt prove as useful as expected.

[rabidninjawombat]

I keep them as default, then again i also use a joystick with the game =) makes flying so much more fun.

[John FX]

I think after seeing the replies that I may adjust my eva key bindings. I often try to go up and end up going forward...

[MonkeyFuzz]

I leave the WASD controls alone, however I have the translation controls bound to the number pad. They are: 8/5 Up/Down, 4/6 Left/Right; 7/9 Forward/Back.

[Mesons]

I use an xbox 360 controller, so any time I have something bound to a key it behaves backwards to how I expect, given that I always have my joysticks inverted to behave like this:

to mimic the action of an aircraft joystick i.e. pulling back raises the nose and pushing forward lowers it ... feels perfectly natural.

So I always swap the keys from the default.