

Seriously though, IMO Analog inputs are an ESSENTIAL part of any proper 3D game (be it first person, third person, god's eye or Flight) and to limit yourself to digital only inputs (e.g. KBD) is hobbling yourself.
Typical expectations for a PC based game these days is at least KBD+MSE not just KBD. I have yet to play any X game without heavy use of the mouse (or other analog device) for flight or UI operation. With X2 I used a Logitech joystick and for the X3 games I used a Saitek dual-axis gamepad until Egosoft (IMO) screwed up generic gamepad support when adding proper support for the Xbox gamepad. After that point I switched to KBD+MSE which made the transition to X-Rebirth quite easy IMO. I am a fairly recent convert to the Saitek X52 Std HOTAS though and on the most part find I can configure it so I barely have to touch the KBD or MSE.