The Future for SE IV? Does it have one?

[geoschmo]

For me it depends on what you mean by 3D combat.

If you mean 3D, Real Time, first person shooter combat, no thanks. I hate real time. I will probably not even bother playing the SEV demo if it's a real time game, as much as I love SEIV.

I would like to see a little more depth in the combat engine though. Moving ships around in three dimensions instead of two would be cool. Ships stacking, angles of fire, momentum factors in movement, that sort of thing.

3D rendered graphics I don't care about one way or the other. I am sure they would be very pretty. As long as they don't require so much programing time that game play suffers. But I would think they might make it more difficult to mod imagaes and stuff. So that might be bad.

Geoschmo