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Originally posted by prader:
Would not having 3d views be a serious problem or just an aesthetic one? I can deal with not seeing 3d views of the ships but it wouldn't do much good if the game crashes. 
Thanks everyone for your responses so far. You've been very helpful.
It's purely aesthetic. You could have a top down 36x36 bitmap for the mini images used in movement and combat, and the same top-down image blown up to a 128x128 bitmap and the game would not care. It would not give you errors unless the images were named incorrectly.
Geoschmo