a joystick? bah who uses those crappy things these days

oh a joystick for the walker? to be honest i dont realy see why you would need/want to move a walker with a joystick. it doesnt move in a free 360 way. it just move forward and backwards.

havent tried this but the controls can be changed ingame to you liking. so i dont see a problem with changing the wasd controls to the y,x and z of a joystick.
Personally i fly much better in a tie uhm i mean airplane with my mouse and keyboard. its all in the settings for me

but im no dev so sorry i cant help you

Beta: Latin for "still doesn't work".

lol i only use a js in bf2 to give me more of a flying effect with u know 2 hands lol but yes js would be an ok idea i guess, but u would probably own. besides if ur good at a mouse, then use a mouse if ur good at js then use a js

Join the Empire... or DIE

You haven't been playing MechWarrior for 2 years, I'm a hardcore JS user.  Mouse+KB is vastly inferior to a JS for any aerial conflict for the simple reason that you don't have to move a JS and then move it to the opposite side to keep turning, a JS also has degrees of speed of said turn and you can do so indefinitely without moving your hand.
I've tried to get BF2142 to accept my JS but it will not, it doesn't recognize it as a device.  I've made the decision to buy a new computer ASAP and it'll be Linux so it really won't make a damned difference really...all my games are either getting old or are (in the case of BF) buggy, I get lagged out of servers at most after a half-hour...thank you Road Runner "high-speed" (7 mbps my rotting undead pie) for sucking beyond compare!
I'll try installing the drivers to see if that works though.