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-Shadowalker-™ Admiral Galactic Navy
Joined: September 23, 2007 Posts: 709 From: Shadows
| Posted: 2007-10-11 19:54  
How do you play like the picture shows? You know like wth th ships all over the place:up, down, left, and right. How do you do that? Instead of playing on a flat plain it just look wierd!
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Mersenne Twister Fleet Admiral
Joined: May 11, 2003 Posts: 1161 From: Sector C Test Labs and Contol Facilities
| Posted: 2007-10-11 19:57  
thats a camera rotation. see observer mode.
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Sardaukar Admiral Raven Warriors
Joined: October 08, 2002 Posts: 1656
| Posted: 2007-10-11 20:01  
Those pictures are probably taken in Observer mode, where the camera isn't as restricted as the regular view. The players ships are always constrained, control-wise, to a single flat field. The game plays well enough that way; while it's true that full 3D motion would allow for some interesting attacks, it'd cause a lot of headaches... how would damage be distributed? How do we rebalance ships with new upward and downward armor/weapon arcs? We barely have enough people playing now to really populate a flat battlefield... That is, it'd make defense even more of a nightmare than it is, if ships could just drop down into the center of a system, instead of approaching past all the lateral planets.
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