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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The systems aren't too big if you are just trying to find a particular planet. The map shows you where they are and you can usually find your way there pretty quickly as long as no one is trying to kill you along the way. On the other hand, if you are trying to either hunt down or protect one particular ship, as several missions require you to do, the system can seem absolutely huge as you run from one end to the other searching frantically for the ship you must either kill or protect before time runs out.

To answer your second question, the game is 2D like Starfleet Command. It would be cool to fly in a 3D environment, but in practice the game feels vast enough in 2D for my taste. I don't think you will feel too restricted.

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Don't know if anyone else has asked this before so bear with me. I'm just wondering if any one has a firm (or relatively firm) date on the release of the demo?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It should be out next week. There is no firm date as of yet.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">So all ships and planets, and just about everything is on the same plane?

No attacks from above, or below?

Is is analogous to sailing a ship on the ocean where movement is restricted to 'port' or 'starboard'?

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sailing ships shipset?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ooh, if so, this is bad. I wouldn't like a space combat game that didn't have a real 3-d engine.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It really depends on how you define a 3D engine. To me it means rendering 3D objects in realtime. Just because these objects do not move "up" or "down" does not mean it is not a 3D engine. The planets and ships ARE rendered in 3D, so it is technically a 3D engine!

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You can place the 3d objects above or below the plane of combat if you like, no problem. It is a 3d rendering, and the most common camera view is above and behind your ship.

To keep things simple, there isn't a command to "dive" or "pull up", no rolling the ship to align with starbases, etc.