Anyone using a gaming chair?

Ohsirus · Post by **Ohsirus** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:25 am

I'm looking at getting the playseat flightseat link

My lil desk chair generally has me humped over trying to sim.

Wife said no to this chair

[Edited on 8-20-2010 by Ohsirus]

tk7223 · Post by **tk7223** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:03 am

If you can do some minor woodworking-find your self a nice bucket seat off craigs list or ebay and build your own...They are not that hard to come by. I was able to pick up a mini-van bucket seat, almost mint condition for 35$ on ebay for my cockpit. I can sit in that all day with out being sore or stiff.

Ohsirus · Post by **Ohsirus** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:18 am

There's the problem, I'm not good at woodworking.

tk7223 · Post by **tk7223** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:11 am

Dang

Maybe ask a friend to help??

Von Paulus · Post by **Von Paulus** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:34 am

I don't even dare to show the chair to my wife, she would promptly say, "It's me or the chair."

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:12 pm

lol

Easy to build it with little help...

Anyone knows its price?

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:35 pm

Yup, expensive indeed. After finding a "sport car chair", only problem is building construction... Looks like easy...

One of my friend did it. Looks very good, works very well, and coast is appox 200$... If I can reach him, I'll put a picture right here...

In addition, I know some kind of apparatus to be fitted to existing tables for placing hotas...Working very well and waaay cheaper...

[Edited on 8-20-2010 by warsign]

tk7223 · Post by **tk7223** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:21 pm

Yup...but all you need really is to do a simple "simpit" home built cockpit search on Google images to get some good ideas. Not really that hard to put an idea to paper and build with cheap materials.

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:59 pm

Originally posted by Eclipse

....16USD for these plans which lets you use any regular household chair (my personal preference)...

Wow, nice idea and looks cool. Not scary at all, definitely buildable!

I like "missile lamp" so much by the way

Whoa! Look at this!!!

http://www.rogerdodger.net/images/ww2_f ... ebaddy.jpg

Awesome!

[Edited on 8-20-2010 by warsign]

tk7223 · Post by **tk7223** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:21 pm

I am still surprised that more folks do not build starfighter simpits.....WWII and modern jet pits are the vast majority for some reason.

Blackthorne · Post by **Blackthorne** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:18 pm

Originally posted by tk7223
I am still surprised that more folks do not build starfighter simpits.....WWII and modern jet pits are the vast majority for some reason.

Well, truth to be told: There are few cool space fighter cockpits that are fleshed out enough to get enough reference shots to make a plan from...

...and the REALLY cool space cockpits tend to be a bit impractical. I mean, it's pretty hard to properly control a space sim when you're floating immersed in a slightly tinted liquid breathing medium. And don't get me started on the problems of getting an alien hybrid capable of interfacing with Vice's games so that I can scream orders at him in bad old-earth english.

Jokes aside, most space fighter cockpits are clearly heavily inspired by/rip off earth airplane cockpits. And it's hard to get proper visual references, as most of them are CGI by now and thus are not bound by the laws of physics.

-Blackthorne

Ohsirus · Post by **Ohsirus** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:34 pm

Another thing about space fighter cockpits are there aren't any worthy Space Sims ( Evochron excluded) that truly capture the Sim experience ala FSX/DCS/il-2. Also I can't beleive the PVC pipe setup is appealing to a few. Looks like something from the Fat Albert Junkyard Band. Maybe If they drilled in a few rotating LEDs.

Can't find a source that will deliver me the chair at a decent price

This could also satisfy my needs.

A SimPit is Born.

[Edited on 8-20-2010 by Ohsirus]

Ohsirus · Post by **Ohsirus** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:54 pm

Originally posted by Eclipse
Originally posted by Ohsirus
Another thing about space fighter cockpits are there aren't any worthy Space Sims ( Evochron excluded) that truly capture the Sim experience ala FSX/DCS/il-2. Also I can't beleive the PVC pipe setup is appealing to a few. Looks like something from the Fat Albert Junkyard Band. Maybe If they drilled in a few rotating LEDs.
PVC is easy to work with, easily pained black or another color, and also easy to attach panels to that can hide the PVC from the player's view.

Hiding that desk is much harder.

OMG They got training PVC Videos, I must be behind the times.

Ok After watching the videos I can see some possibilites, covering the PVC Pipes with some form of lamintate/ COntact panel/etc. Something tough/flexible.hmmm. I was always good with my Erector set.

[Edited on 8-20-2010 by Ohsirus]

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:03 pm

Originally posted by Ohsirus
There's the problem, I'm not good at woodworking.

Ask your wife if she is good at wood working and if she is tell here to make the chair for you otherwise its the chair from the link. Unless she makes more then you do....

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MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 2:33 am

I use a gaming chair. And I have built 4 of them.
It was easy enough. Just pickup a comfortable office chair, bolt side panels to the arms, make or have made, "boxes" for the controller/s [in my case, an X45] and glue/mount them to the side panels where you want them.
I'm not a carpenter eiither. After I found a chair I liked, I found a carpenter I liked, explained what I wanted and he did the rest.
Cost was around $50.00USD, not counting the chair.
I have pics, but don't know how to include them.
Good Luck...

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:35 am

LOL....I could built one, but if I did I would be glued in it and have a not so happy wife. Now if my wife built one for me...that is if she could......then I would not feel so bad being glued in it and I would have a happier wife......

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warsign · Post by **warsign** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:14 am

I am totally agree with Eclipse. Pvc has many advantages...
While building and after building...

Looks like "worth-to try" to me!

Sinbad · Post by **Sinbad** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 1:34 pm

Originally posted by Von Paulus
I don't even dare to show the chair to my wife, she would promptly say, "It's me or the chair."

An easy choice as far as I'm concerned

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:34 pm

Originally posted by MCCON
Originally posted by Von Paulus
I don't even dare to show the chair to my wife, she would promptly say, "It's me or the chair."
An easy choice as far as I'm concerned

"Yuppers I agree"....I traded the 'ol battle ax in for a shinny new space ship

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:24 am

LOL............

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soulsacrifice · Post by **soulsacrifice** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:50 am

Originally posted by warsign
I am totally agree with Eclipse. Pvc has many advantages...
While building and after building...

Looks like "worth-to try" to me!

Yes, but you guys aren't thinking big enough.

He's got a whole website dedicated to showing how to build it. I'd love to have one of these with EL.

MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:13 am

Some people just don't know when enough is enough!

:D:D

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:27 pm

LOL....his screen is a little bit small, now if he had put a 360 degrees wall monitor instead then he would really been thinking big.....

:P:P:P:P:P

Blackthorne · Post by **Blackthorne** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:37 pm

Originally posted by EclipseI've already seen that and realized that it's impractical to achieve the three 360 degree axes needed for full motion simulation in Evochron.
I haven't figured out a practical, not to mention safe, means of making a motion sim that can handle putting the player hanging upside down.

How would you even define "up" in space?

Yeah, I know, Evochron has an easy answer for that, since all space stations are oriented along the plane of the ecliptic. But from a "hard SF" point of view, you'd just feel the acceleration forces of the ship's frame, which places "down" in the opposite direction of the engine's push.

So, if we'd really build a motorized monkey swing for that "spacey" feeling, you'd be lying on your back, most of the time, with gravity simulating the ship's acceleration. Unless you use reverse thrust, which would be best simulated by having you suspended facing down to the ground. And once we start using the strafe drives, you might as well bring an airplane barf bag along, since it'll be rather intense.

But since we can assume mastery of artificial gravity in the Evochron Universe (the ships are laid out like airplanes and naval vessels, not like torchships, and the stations don't use coriolis forces to simulate gravity), you can just build a "static" cockpit and tell the luddites that your inertial compensator is working just fine.

And yes, I have spent far too much time designing a "hard" SF setting for a RPG campaign. Believe me, realism =/= fun.

-Blackthorne

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:16 pm

Originally posted by Eclipse

(AG being available to capital ships , cities, and stations only due to the size of needed equipment).

Once somebody comes up with the basic design, I'm pretty sure the Japanese will be able to reduce its size down to something compact enough, cheap enough, and practical enough to be installed in smaller space ships.