🚀 go-pugleaf

You gotta be kidding!!!  No joystick control for Freelancer???  It's bad enough
it requires directX 9, which is not backward-compatible, not uninstallable,
will no-doubt screw up many computers for months and older computers forever,
but now M$ thinks they can sell a space combat game without joystick support! 
HA!  What arrogance!  Glad I'm not buying it!

Stick with Wing Commander and Tachyon, and jet-fighter games.  For a good game
with a mouse interface (joystick control would be nice here too...) try Star
Trek Bridge Commander.

>while this may be true, I still hate mouse flight. I just can't get
>myself to imagine sitting in a space fighter/small freighter cockpit
>with a tablet in front of me and a keyboard by my side to drag a mouse
>around for turning/aiming and frantically hitting buttons to drop
>countermeasures/mines or fire missiles or what-not. At least, with
>joystick control, as it used to be, most inflight functions
>(turn/pitch/roll/throttle) and firing controls (fire guns, fire missiles)
>and afterburner were concentrated in one control mechanism.