Remember the (good) old times with cruise mode. Flying trough the asteroid belt with your Constellation in cruise mode, the asteroids flying by left and right. You was able to manage your speed with your throttle and make small course correction with your stick. You were able to enjoy the beauty of the ‘verse. Now, with a much bigger ‘verse and more to explore, we were not able to cruise. The AB2 mechanic is a bad replacement for Cruise Mode. You have to push the AB button to manage your speed and can‘t use your throttle, AB burn all your fuel in minutes and your are not able to make small corrections to your course. It’s really bad for HOTAS users now. The distance between Point of Interests are much bigger in 3.0 and with (low) SCM speeds it takes forever to reach a destination. We have seen it even in the CitizenCon demo, that AB(2) was used very often. So please give us the right tools and mechanics to cruise between destinations: - with throttle controll to manage speed - the ability for small course corrections (slow and only a few degrees) - not burning all our fuel in minutes - on its own shortcut with the ability to enable and disable cruise (like old flight modes). I know there was a need for balancing combat. But not all players are combat orientated and with removing cruise, you remove a basic mechanic: to just simple go from A to B in a way you can enjoy the game. And with AB and AB2 on the same button, both players (combatants and civilians) are unhappy. Because combatants just want to use AB for maneuvers and civilians want to cruise fast from A to B. At the end i would prefer to get old flight modes (PRE - SCM - CRU) back. Because there are some players who wants to make precious maneuvers without landing gear down. For combat balancing issues you already have good feedback on cruise. One idea is a spool up time. I would prefer a power transder rate. If we want to cruise we have to transfer power from weapons to engines and also a good portion of shield power. Energy transfer should need some time. So if i decide to cruise i will not be able to take part in a fight, because my weapons are offline. If i abuse cruise in combat, i have to wait for power transfer back to my weapons and full shield recharge if i leave cruise again. Please make Cruise great again and put back the fun into just traveling! —