Currently, the FoV in large ships (Behemoth variants and capships) is *inside* the ship. This is not true for other, smaller ships. For lack of a better way to put it, I'll just say that in small ships it feels like the camera is on the front tip of the ship, while in Behemoths and capitals it feels like the camera is inside the ship and the parts of the ship in front of the camera are transparent. This is particularly apparent in capships, slightly in moths.

The problem this causes is that while flying these ships you collide with objects much sooner than expected. Like the car side mirrors, "Objects may be closer than they appear". You also pick up cargo that seems to be much farther from your ship.

Hence suggestion is to automatically adjust the FoV such that the camera is right in front of the ship rather than in the middle.

That's not FoV (which is user-adjustable, anyway), you're just asking to move the camera position.

It's pretty normal for the camera to be centered in games as if looking out from the ship's cockpit but I'm not opposed to adding an additional camera mode where it is placed at the front of the model ("bumper camera" in cars/driving games). So as long as we also keep the current mode I'll give you a +1.

Yea, dont drive a goli if this bothers you. That makes it really terrible. The camera gets put in the cockpit and the ship model is removed. So either the "bumper" camrea or a option to put the model back in. Both would look wierd.

I personally love the current camera view.