Create a Mouse Deadzone setting override in space

Create a Mouse Deadzone setting override in space
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KalKaion

Proposal
Create a Mouse Deadzone setting override in space, so that players using their mouse to fly aren't required to manually adjust their settings between ground and space content, every time they swap between forms of content.
Justification
Currently, the standard recommendation for new pilots is to set their mouse deadzone to 75%, to prevent over-responsiveness in controls while flying. However, making this change also currently affects how the mouse functions on the ground. This causes individuals who prefer the way things are controlled on the ground by default to need to constantly swap in and out of the settings menu, changing the mouse deadzone.
Motivation
This is a request purely to smooth over the new player experience for jumping into Space content, and to remove a pain point among the Space community.
A common complaint amongst new players venturing into space for the first time is that the mouse control is immediately too sensitive to effectively fly. The go-to advice for such players given by vets is to enlarge the mouse deadzone to around 75% while in space. This, however, also changes how the mouse/camera is controlled on the ground. This proposal is to add an override within the settings menu, allowing one to set the mouse deadzone for both space and ground content separately.

An additional request would be the same sort of override setting, but for mouse sensitivity, but that is, in my view, a lesser priority.
 
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Ive long wanted this change. It occurs to me the easiest solution might just be to make ground deadzone always 0, and let the deadzone option exclusively affect space. Is anyone honestly using anything other than deadzone 0 on ground?
 
The large ground deadzone is actually how the game (pre-NGE) functioned. With the combat changes to the game as a result of the NGE, the deadzone was zero'd out by default, but if I recall correctly, there were 4 camera modes one could swap between: The traditional large deadzone, the zero'd deadzone, mouse cursor mode, and the "shooter" style of combat for the NGE. Here, it seems the shooter style was fully disabled (understandably considering the changes the server made to combat), but they also appear to have flattened the mode switch between the deadzone settings. This would make sense to explain why the deadzone is zero'd out in space by default on Resto, inheriting the new flattened default cursor mode.
 
At current, Space is Star Wars Galaxies is the only space I HATE in a Star Wars game, and it stresses me out so bad, I refuse to do any space stuff.

I hate that I even feel this way.

So if this is what will fix space for me, then upvote added.
 
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