I would like to be able to fly one way and fire my weapons in another. Firing only in the direction the ship facing kinda sucks imho. I know you can already kind of do this but you can not turbo in a direction away from they one your firing in. Flybys would be more interesting and it would add a better dog fighting feel to the game.

Another aspect I would like to see would be orbiting but that might not fit well with the game engine.

You basically already can do what you request, yes. Except for turboing, which only goes forward. That's just sort of the way it's set up. I can't comment on how it might affect gameplay to change this.

I guess Turbo could be altered to turbo in the direction you are moving, but that doesn't seem to make sense to me. I thought we could turbo due to those huge engines we have in back.

Uh, accelerate, turn on physics mode, turn 90 degrees in any direction. You're now moving in one direction and firing in another.

That's what you want, unless I'm totally misunderstanding you.

He wants to be able to turbo in one direction and fire in another.

He wants to fly fowards, jump in the gunner seat and shoot down those TIE fighters!

Use the force Luke!
lol

Actually, for traders the ability to have a tailgunner would help immensely.

Of course, piracy being as hard as it is it's probably unnecessary. But once it gets unnerfed, a tailgun-turret on a centaur would be mighty handy. Even if it was just a weak AI turret it would help slow down pursuers.