Roll vs Yaw crusades

Do you prefer to use roll (left and right arrows) or yaw (, and .) when flying your ship?

The early versions of Classic Elite only had roll and pitch. The yaw option came to Oolite with Jens Ayrton (second lead developer), a leading crusader for the Yawists (c.2007, v.1.66). Many of the long-standing players of Oolite who began with Elite in their halcyon days internalised rolling as the alternative to pitching in manoeuvering their craft. So do many who have actually flown - whether flight sims, real gliders, or something larger!

Those who have come more recently to Oolite often find that yaw is more instinctive to their gaming (although this debate ran for a several years before yaw was introduced).

Note that Oolite itself favours roll over yaw (better manoeuvering with yaw) - and some oxp's such as Hard Way emphasise this even more.

Links

• Discussion (2005) asking for Yaw to be introduced
• Progress 4 days after a buggy yaw was introduced for v.1.67. The first two posts are relevant.
• See the bottom of this post and the ensuing discussion.