[Suggestion] Accessibility option for trick controls

While tricks not executing as soon as a turn/look button is pressed is welcome for some, I feel like the game wasn't originally designed with this control scheme in mind, and it feels weird having to release acceleration before holding it again just to perform a trick.

I'm thinking that there could be an accessibilty option to cycle through different behaviors for it. I'm thinking of the following:

• Immediate: Trick is executed as soon as a direction is pressed. This used to be the trick behavior in 2.1 and earlier.
• While accelerating: Trick can only be executed if acceleration is being held.
• While not accelerating: The opposite of the previous option.
• Latched: Trick can only be executed if acceleration is being held, but it can't be the same held button prior to the trick. This is the default behavior since 2.2.

Personally, since acceleration is used to move forwards, I feel it is significantly more intuitive for the common player to have to release it to be able to turn in the air. While accelerating sounds like a more natural mechanic to me, being the middle ground between what it used to be and what it is now.

The While not accelerating one was not exactly thought out in full. I figured that since some accesibility options translate into player flags, there would be one remaining permutation available in a potential 2-bit setting. So, hey, here's a fourth.
Thinking about it a bit further, it's just as intuitive as the opposite version. It might prevent players from accidentally executing a trick due to holding acceleration just as with the current scheme, but this one just requires releasing acceleration to perform a trick instead of releasing and pressing it again.

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There's also a separate problem regarding accesibility options and storage thereof - Adding more accesibility options is now troublesome due to there being no more available bits for player flags! I believe that accesibility flags should exist in their own player field instead of being smuggled in pflags. But that's something for a different issue.

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!15 (merged) can work as a simpler solution for this that doesn't involve more toggles

I'm offering solutions that don't involve adding more options for tricking, but rather retooling how the confirmation operates. My preference is to avoid releasing then pressing a button again and instead make the check be as described in While accelerating: This turns trick execution into a condition where you must be accelerating to trick, allowing you to turn in mid-air by not accelerating.

Allowing a different control to confirm the trick action does not solve the inherent problem the current trick confirmation system has, it just makes controls more awkward to use. It does not feel intuitive.

I know some are happy with the current system and some are not, so allowing the player to configure it, just like you can configure accesibility settings like the auto roulette or the kickstart accel or the lite steering, should not be too problematic.

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