Tedious flight controls?

[Hellshake Yano]

Is there any way to make your ship stay at a certain speed without having to micro-manage your thrust every so often? I'm getting tired of needing to pay more attention to my speed than I am to the planet I'm exploring.

edit: also a way to bind at least yaw onto the keyboard instead of on the mouse would be quite nice.

[Krash Megiddo]

I just boost everywhere. Try it.

[Hellshake Yano]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

I just boost everywhere. Try it.

That really doesn't solve the problem. At all.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Practice makes perfect. You can't help but go forward planet side.

[Hellshake Yano]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Practice makes perfect. You can't help but go forward planet side.

That also doesn't answer the question.

Maybe the OP was confusing. Let me try phrasing the question a different way.

I'm asking if there's any way to fly at a certain speed without holding a key down the whole time. For example, a way to travel at top speed without eventually slowing down if you release the W key.

I'm not asking what the fastest way to move is, I'm asking if there's a way to continue moving at more than the minimum speed, with no further inputs after accelerating to your desired speed.

If there isn't any way to do so, that's fine, but if there is I'd like to know how to do it. Hopefully that clears up any confusion.

[taniwhat]

Unless you can bind that to caps lock I'd have thought not. Annoying, particularly when walking/running it does toggle. i.e. we know they can do it and didn't.

[Guyver8]

there are some mods over at nexusmods that add 'cruise control' to the flight mechanics
usually as part of other changes, so you might have to look at a few flight mods to find wot suits you...or if you're able to you can get an lua for just the cruise bit and make your own mod

[Mothman]

Originally posted by Guyver8:

there are some mods over at nexusmods that add 'cruise control' to the flight mechanics
usually as part of other changes, so you might have to look at a few flight mods to find wot suits you...or if you're able to you can get an lua for just the cruise bit and make your own mod

this seems to be the only answer really, vanilla NMS has no flight control or otherwise, there is a low speed the ship can stay at regarding moving forward in space flight. but it's low. and nothing else.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Flight controls are garbage. Always have been and nothing has changed. I want the ship to stop and hover but no I guess that's impossible to implement.

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

Flight controls are garbage. Always have been and nothing has changed. I want the ship to stop and hover but no I guess that's impossible to implement.

most of the mods that have the 'cruise control' also add 'planetary hover' and there are numerous hover mods

[taniwhat]

I always thought the living ships should have had hover. They would have been must have with that.

[Redwolf]

I use 'AutoIt' (a 'Basic' like freeware programming language for Windows) as a workaround for such kind of stuff. But you need a keyboard with some programable buttons (I use Logitech G13) so you can program a button to execute a .exe file.
One script sends a 'Key Down' command to trigger the action, the second script sends a 'Key Up' command to stop the action.
So for steadily moving with standard speed (flight or walking) you need two scripts as following content (assuming fly/walk is bound to the 'W' key):
Script 1: Send("{W down}") ; holds the 'W' key down until a 'W up' command will be sent
Script 2: Send("{W up}") ; releases the 'W' key sent by the first script.
Now bind script 1 to button A, script 2 to button B.
If you press button A your ship will fly (or avatar walk) in standard speed until you press button B.
Of course you can programm a third button to send a 'Boost' command so you can fly with maximum speed or always run without having to steadily press a button.