Fidelity settings on Pen tool either too much or too smoothing

[Dragonwalker Art]

I am having a major issue with the pen tool. I find that putting anything above the lowest fidelity setting is smoothing the path too much. Yet if you put it on the lowest then it is much too rough with hundreds of anchor points.
I want to be able to create lines with details in it, but allow for some slight smoothing, but although there are a number of settings on the scale, it seems to go from rough to very smooth and no inbetween.
Is there another setting that may be skewing this effect that I am missing, because it is making sketching extremely difficult and somewhat impossible to achieve the level of detail I need.

Thanks.

[Monika Gause]

Are you referring to the pencil tool?

Which input device are you using? Might that have an influence? 

But apart from that: you could try if drawing in a different zoom level gets you closer to the desired result.

[Dragonwalker Art]

The thing is, it isn't if I zoom in or out, it is the actual effect of the fidelity setting. It just seems to want to smooth the line too much. It seems to jump from pretty much jagged because of how digital drawing is and it isn't smoothing it at all to 'let's make it really smooth and completely ignore the actual line that was drawn with its indents. Zooming in helps a little but it is not always convenient and is also does not actually fix the problem.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

THen I would do the following: record a screen video and then make a bug report/feature request at https://illustrator.uservoice.com

Also you could try if Astute Graphics Dynamic Sketch plugin does a better job for you. It's not for free, but you can try it out before buying.

[Andee NG]

100% agree. Of the five settings between Accurate and Smooth, notch 1 is too accurate, but notch 2 is too smooth; it can be next to useless when you're trying to draw anything with moderate detail. Something around "1.5" would be ideal.