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Trying to handle a 3D UI with frantic combat going on and controlling heaps of ships at the same time is pretty tough. Homeworld does about as good a job as I've seen, but it's still way too frantic for me, and of course it has all the RTS bull**** of researching and resource gathering and building new ships all at the same time as combat is going on, as if the constant action spread all over 3D space were not enough. Anathema to me. Good tactical 3D is I think possible in theory, but a whole lot more work just to tell WTF is going on, for developers, for the AI, for players... so I think 2D is a very respectable decision.