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by mbell 4883 days ago
Eve doesn't have WASD controls, there really isn't constant input.

The ship movement command in Eve are limited to:

* Set course / speed (double clicking in space, speed set via clicking a speed dial thing). This is not something that gets constant tweaks, more a 'move in a general direction' command.

* Orbit x @ y distance

* Keep x @ y distance

* Approach x

In addition other actions in eve are relatively long lived, there isn't fps style aiming but 'locking on' and activating modules which have cycles times of 2-60 seconds.

In practice, even in the heat of battle, I doubt the average player gets even close to 1 input action per second over the course of a fight.