Straight vs. Diagonal

[Fred]

Wouldn't it be more realistic, if ships pay 1.5 movement points (instead of 1) when moving diagonal?

It looks very strange if 2 enemy ships are roughly the same distance away from your ship and then when checking the distance with the cursor, one is 13 and the other just 9 squares away. Odd.

Same applies to system movement, not only to tactical combat.

Fred

Who cares about realism ! Do NOT change this, moving takes long enough as it is !

[Will]

It would be more realistic, but that's not the way it is

In the concept stage of SE4, the fans of SE3 asked that the maps be switched to either a coordinate based system or a hex cell map. They weren't put in, so... can't do much

[capnq]

I don't know about a coordinate system, but I do know from experience that it is quite a bit more work to write the program routines to deal with a hexagonal grid than a square one.

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Cap'n Q


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human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

[Fred]

The change would be quite easy, simply all diagonal moves just cost 1.5 mp...what is the difficulty here?

Fred

[Suicide Junkie]

He said it would be hard to convert to a hex grid.

Fractional movement would IMO overly complicate things for a little more realism.

I've just accepted it and gotten used to seeing distances as virtual boxes. ie. range 6 is not a circle around your ship, but a square.