Fix to movement problem
I recently read in a thread that the distance to move sideways is about equal to moving 1.5 spaces. Without ditching the chess board style layout, I remembered some demo of a game I downloaded like 8 years ago which the squares were 6 sided honey come shapes which fit together. This gives you an equal sideways movement. The only true problem I see with it is the fact that individuals create their own ship images. Isn't a 6 sider a hectagon?
The next step in realism for the game would to dictate the direction the ship was facing to fire, and rate of speed to turn.
No hard U'ies in a Dreadnaught.
I would go with larger ship images if I went to the honey comb shapes though. More details.
If you limited the way a certain type of gun could fire, you could add a lot more strategic game play. It would give smaller escort and destroyer class ships more of a use than just what you had to use at the beginning of the game. More types of weapons too, like phaser banks (sweep to all sides-lower power) and extra thrusters to make them hard turns that dump over coffee cups.
If you implemented splash damage and fixed the fleet ordering problem( one ship moves at a time in a fleet instead of all together) you would have an awesome tactical simulator in the game!
You could build sE5 out of all these options alone and sell it as is.
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Steve
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