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I don't have a lot of experience with joysticks so I can't speak
authoritatively about the Thrustmaster's and Flighsticks of the world and
thus can't compare them but......

My brother went looking for a joystick to use with DESCENT because he
hated the mouse and keyboard setups. I told him to look for one with
analog capability because I seemed to remember reading in this newsgroup
that analog would work better with a game like DESCENT. I still don't know
if that true, anyone want to clarify?

Anyway so he went down to Sam's wharehouse and bought a Gravis Mousestick
II analog FOR ONLY $30! From all I can tell this thing works perfectly.
It's smooth, fast, I can't really see much wrong with it and the price
can't be beat. I tried it for a while myself and used the
keyboard/joystick combination and it worked quite well. I used the
keyboard for strafing, accelerating, etc. and used the joystick for
spinning, firing primary and secondary, and tilt forward and backwards.

I have to say it really worked well. I'm not sure if I'm as proficient at
it yet as I am with the mouse but it's close. Furthermore it seems to
avoid some of the problems with the mouse. I find that I tend to "spin
out" often with the mouse. I don't know why this happens but it's
disconcerting. This doesn't happen with the MouseStick II. You turn to the
left and it turns, smooth and even. I like this quality a lot.

I tried it in conjuction with a P60 Pentium and it was almost heaven. The
P60 had a 17" monitor and actually I think I prefer the smaller 15" size.
The image seems to get a little too grainy and pixelated at that large
screen size and I couldn't back up far enough from the screen so that it
started to look smooth again. Other than this the setup was great.

So for those of you who are looking for a cheap but good joystick to use
with the game I guess I would recommend the MouseStick II. It seems to
have done the trick for us.

Clint