Spertallica
Rear Admiral
See if you can find one of the old MS Sidewinders with the throttle and rudder controls built in- it's probably the most practical joystick ever for WC games, and works great with the Mechwarrior line as well. As for P2- I have had a love/hate relationship with it. When I first bought it back in the 90's, I extremely disliked it because it didn't seem connected to the WCU at all. I played through it again a couple years ago, and it actually was decent- I liked being able to hire a monolith on strike missions to use as an impromptu escort destroyer, and the weird sets, which had turned me off when I was younger, were just fantastic bubblegum sci fi now.
I had no idea you could run from ships though!! I remember a couple times that stupid military dreadnought near one of the jump gates decided it wanted to kill me for no reason- and I'd usually be in a situation where I'd be flying a dinged up aurora who just used his torps at the last jump point to kill a pirate cruiser, so killing it was not an option (it would just hose me with fire if I got anywhere near it)- man that thing pissed me off because I thought I couldn't run from it, so I was as good as dead!
I had no idea you could run from ships though!! I remember a couple times that stupid military dreadnought near one of the jump gates decided it wanted to kill me for no reason- and I'd usually be in a situation where I'd be flying a dinged up aurora who just used his torps at the last jump point to kill a pirate cruiser, so killing it was not an option (it would just hose me with fire if I got anywhere near it)- man that thing pissed me off because I thought I couldn't run from it, so I was as good as dead!