"Z-axis" planet

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We had some friends over on the 4th and did a couple "Comp stomp" LAN games.  On the second game, I noticed I had sent a cap (The egg) and some frigs to take it over.  The ships looked like they were at the planet, but they weren't.  As I zoomed in, suddenly I was seeing a terran and a asteroid.

When I looked at it from the side I saw what was going on.  The terran planet was vertically linked to the asteroid and sat above the other planets in the plane.

Now, I eventually got the ships to get to the terran planet, however once there, ships were trapped and couldn't leave.

Has anyone else ever seen this?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

all the time actually. but my forces never got trapped...

 

I once saw twin ice planets vertically linked and the owner was using it as a hidden production area.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, the ships couldn't hardly get to the planet.  I diable "Group jump" and the frigs shot up right away, the cap didn't arrive till I had lost most of my frigs.  Then nothing could leave.  I have 8 trade ships flying around below the planet unable to leave with cargo...

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I actually made a map with GalaxyForge that had 4 planets around each star, and there were 2 stars above and below one another. I then connected all the planets, but not to the stars.

So, it was literally a cube.

After I restarted my computer, though, it loads with overlapping planets now. :-(

It would be very cool to be able to set the Z-axis so they weren't so close to cause glitches and problems jumping.