There have been a few technical elevator threads and a good bit of speculation that this year may be an elevator game. My question is what do people think are good controllers for elevator height? Throttles? Buttons on a gamepad? Custom button board?
As someone who’s never had an elevator game I think it depends on the game. If it was 2019 with several known heights I would do several buttons with preset heights. With something with more continuous heights like 2018 I might have a throttle. Ultimately it’s whatever the driver is most comfortable with.
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Buttons for sure, to get to preset heights. Having a manual override that ignores soft limits is also critical for when your encoders or mechanisms inexplicably fail and reach 2" lower than normal.
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It depends a LOT on the game and the driver. 330 for years used a joystick… but this was back when Flightsticks were the norm.
If it were me, I’d use a joystick with a pile of buttons. Buttons for the presets, stick for setting and adjusting the presets–a failsafe here would be to use one button (say, the trigger) for “use stick” overrides.
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Buttons with presets for sure, and then manual up/down for adjustments.
We use Xbox 360 controllers, and in 2019 we used the x, b, a buttons for high, mid, low goal and we used the left and right shoulder buttons for a manual up/down adjust button for small tweaks if needed.
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The later is almost exactly the setup we used in 2018 and 19. No on the fly adjustment of the presets; any time the elevator encounter went out, that meant the gearbox or chain was already dead.
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