#Scroll to change drone (F2) view speed

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pearl moat
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-# I don' t know if this was asked before, i couldnt find it
Adding in that holding shift and using scroll wheel up/down will increase/decrease the drone cam's movement speed.
Space engineers does this and I find it quite useful, as it lets you be really precise when you need it and travel large distances when you need it.
There isn't even a UI for it, just move to know how fast you move.

somber pawn
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this

lofty thistle
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If the drones fast it defeats the purpose of building transport

warm ruin
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If the drone was too fast we believe it would completely kill the immersion of the game and the sense of scale.
Will not do.

pearl moat
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Why not just give it a top speed?
like 10x to 50x running speed. Just to help ease making large vehicles without being a replacement for airplanes and rockets.

long basin
pearl moat
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Would likely still ruin the effect.

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I just want the ability to work on massive vehicles without needing to wait a solid 15-30 seconds to travel to the other side just to plug 1 wire in.
Not a "hey whats that over there?" NYYOOOOOMMM "Oh cool"

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I get it that SE does that so maybe my original post gave the wrong idea.

long basin
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Being able to build from a cockpit seat could help
But then you don't have noclip

long basin
pearl moat
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Sitting in a seat and pressing F2 to have a drone view that moves fast but is locked to a certain distance from the vehicle would also be viable.
say you cant move further then 10 meters from the vehicle bounding box

long basin
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That sounds very annoying if anything

warm ruin
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Going fast with the drone in Archean would be like a cheat code.
Usually the day you start using cheat codes in a game is your last day on that game. It just completely kills it.
If you’re building a giant ship, even in creative mode, if you can move very fast around it to build it you lose the sense of scale. If you lose the sense of scale you also lose the sense of accomplishment of having built that giant thing.

long basin
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I don't think you do
KSP has cheats
You can turn off fuel consumption and teleport to any planet you want at any time
Doesn't make landing there legit feel any less rewarding

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Cheats are a good convenience tool
There's a reason they exist

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Especially in sandbox games

warm ruin
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what makes Archean stand out compared to KSP (besides the fact you have to write your own complex logic for control systems), is the immersion of first person in full scale Real Time / no time warp.
that loses all its value when you can move very fast with your player.
it adds so much gameplay if you have to use a rover to drive from one side of your giant ship to the other to build it.

Now in terms of creative mode, again what's the point of building something gigantic if you don't feel like it's big while building it?
In Archean, building the thing should be the fun part where you spend most the time, and it must be immersive.
I fear the sense of scale would just completely die if we can go faster in drone mode.

That being said, we still need to figure a more immersive/realistic way to use the drone for adventure/survival... maybe we'll change the drone mode for an actual separate drone where you disconnect from the avatar (instead of switching) and that can go a bit faster but limited in range from where you left the avatar... maybe a few kilometers... will need to figure this out.

long basin
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Holding W for half a minute just to get from one end to the other is not what i'd count as fun

warm ruin
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no but getting in a rover and driving around is

long basin
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Also, i would love to have a proper cheat menu
For teleporting and setting orbit and the like

long basin
warm ruin
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I'll think about it

long basin
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Immersion is cool n all
But i and many others are here to build things

pearl moat
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So 2 things:
1 i did think of using a car, and
A. I assumed entering a vehicle would reset the cable spool which would stop you from building massively long cables (I was wrong, Thank you devs)
B. I'd end up forgetting the car on one side of the ship. More of a me issue but figured i'd mention it.
But the actual issue, is that the car is very bouncy,

  1. Could someone just make a mod? Im not just talking the devs here, im talking just someone who's really dedicated.
    I didnt check the SDK but would it be possible?
    Cause i do agree that travelling fast ruins the scale of the game. I remember playing KSP and using rockets to fly to the north pole instead of air plane. I did use a plane once, never again.
    But if the players have to go to the workshop to get this feature, then at that point, they ruin their own fun.
austere gust
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I’ll throw in my two cents here