If you want to pay an extra $500 for shipping aforementioned stone tablets..

Trying to make sense of this thread...
So there's a guy saying that Z-movement doesn't really exist, and there's a bunch of people saying that it really does exist.
Hmm... I guess I'll just have to buy the game in a few weeks and find out for myself.

I haven't tried this yet, but in theory I see no reason why it couldn't work. Couldn't you use the z-axis command (holding down the ~ key right?) to go above or below gauss cannons/missle batteries? That could make the z-axis rather useful with planet assualts (against poorly positioned cannons/batteries anyways).

i guess i'll just have to learn how to look up  

Defense ranges are spherical.

What are you trying to say, kosc?

that it doesn't matter if you fly above or below the weapon platform, it will still shoot you...

Yup. it also means people who surround their planet in a ring of defenses can get a nasty surprise if someone just flies up over them, or under, and bombard with impunity

I agree being able to fly over guass cannons is stupid. You need to be able to place structures on the z axis otherwise y build guass cannons at all. Once this strategy becomes more populaur and more people use it then it defeats the enitre point.


Also the exagderation of planets z axis is a step forward. But would it be possible to have the Z axis of plantes, stars, ect. controlled in the (map name).galaxy files. So you could define it or write somthing like RandomZ and have it randomly generated. But this would also need for another value to the

galaxyWidth 800.000000
galaxyHeight 800.000000

so it would be

galaxyWidth 800.000000
galaxyHeight 800.000000
galaxyDepth 800.000000

or somthing like that. If its not possible now how about in the expansion(if there is one). And if none of this is possible perhaps cotroll the exadgeration paramemters is either the (map name).galaxy files or the Gameplay.constants file

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Because cannons are for defending other orbitals, not the entire planet. If you try doing that they'll be spread too thin to be effective to any significant degree. And to defend orbitals, all they need to be is clustered together, regardless of Z-position.

Sweeet! So now we can stack our orbitals in a tight sphere and surround them with defences?

That sucks! -- unless its not a very severe randomization? Doesn't make sense otherwise...