<rant>
You know... is it just me or do the 3D rendered ships look rather... disappointing?
I mean, the ones in SE4 could be good looking because they were static bitmaps, but the ones in SE5, no offense to the talented art team, don't even seem to match Half-Life in terms of polygon count and texture detail...
Come on, this is 2004, our computers aren't THAT slow!
Run a mesh-smooth for crying out loud!
I might just play the game in 2D mode even if my PC supports 3D if it means the graphics will at least have a consistently high quality...
</rant>