J3ph42

[quote] In sins you can see all ships in a gravity well so long as you've got one there yourself (no local FoW), so those sorts of tactics aren't so useful. [/quote] Okay, haven't even played the beta yet, so I just assumed that SoaSE had FoW like any other game with RTS components. Then again people can be unpredictable, so we may see uses that haven't been thought of yet after the game goes retail and into the larger public's hands

[quote] I don't understand why people need to move in Z axis. Perhaps K3ph42 can explain this to me? As far as I can tell most guns have such turret coverage you can't go above or below the field of fire. [/quote] Not having played SoaSE, I can't predict whether the same tactics will be useful, but in HW, it was useful if you needed to hide ships from your opponent, sneak up on them, or if you were the type to try turtling in that game, you coul

Will space be fully 3D Homeworld style (ie. being able to move on X,Y, and Z planes) or will ships move on a 2D plane with no visible 'ground', like in Star Trek Armada or Genesis Rising?