1) Using a semi 3D engine. You're still on a 2D surface and doing silly things to simulate 3D, like using stars and planets as speed bumps... as pilots we'd NEVER fly into these things... we'd fly around them in LONG sweeping arcs.

2) You still need to loose the silly ass Blow Back effect. It is totally unreal and majorly detracts from game play. No intelligent being would pilot a ship that is going to go super nova 100% of time it is disabled. None of the ships have enough atmosphere to create the effect you've created. See 6 below.

3) APing needs a lot of tweeking.

4) Trade Slave AP need a much better guidance system... slaves should intercept their targets not play catch up. (If SS devs had programmed the Apollo missions the Lunar orbiters/landers would still be playing catch-up... except for a few little items... AIR, FOOD, WATER, FUEL)

5) Taking damage from stars... would NEVER happen... again we pilots fly LONG sweeping arcs around them and are never closer that a few million miles/KM. The concept that we'd fly thru a star or close enough to take damage is ludicrous. (Ships don't collide with each other, planets, moons or asteroids ... but stars... REALLY??)

6) Distances... UGH! SS really needs to sort this out and apply a realistic distance system... the idea that everything is measured in pixels (where pixels have no real meaning as far as distance goes) ... well it just SUX BIG TIME.

7) Because SS has no "Z" axis measurement you've created problems for 1, & 5 above that should never exist.

Why did you come back?

If you have nothing worthwhile to add why not shove cake in your cake hole, instead of making worthless comments.

Knew you couldn't shut up about this forever =P

Note to 5: We dont collide with the stars, we just get close enough that our ships gets damaged from radiation and heat (i guess)

They aren't really speed bumps; your horizontal speed stays the same while you traverse objects, while your vertical speed increases and decreases accordingly.

Maybe it would be better for immersion if your horizontal speed actually did decrease when traveling up and down the Z axis (that is, if your total speed in 3D stayed constant).

Like I said before ALL PLANETS, SUNS, MOONS should be below the players z axis!

You'll think they'll listen or even attempt to do this? no

Even if they were halfway submerged, it would help relieve the jarring effect on immersion. The only problem I see is bullets hitting planets/moons/suns would no longer make any sense. This is where the 2.5D thing causes problems.

IMO, planets, moons, roids, and suns should act as physical objects, with larger graphical and orbital sizes. Roids stay small and numerous.

Physical as if you run into a planet fast enough, you bounce off the atmosphere/surface. You could use them as cover, and imo, remove the ethrealness from eth weapons, beefing stats to compensate.

Also from before suggested all non ethereal weapons would be automatically attracted to the planets gravity causing the same effect. Of course this will be ignored.

My only dislike is that ships go up and down over solar bodies and don't pitch at all. Which makes the whole motion rather, odd. It's probably worse on Speed Demons.

Concussions aren't going, they're too useful, you have the + inertia dampening capacitors, use them.

The new AP code is, well... New it'll be improved, but priorities right now lay with getting the clients to work for people they don't, and fixing things that cause crashes.

I don't see why these 'flying through suns' are only problems now, when in C1 everything was on the same plane. If we sink solar bodies, docking and building bases will be really weird. This could lead to full 3D maybe in the future (no idea, not a programmer). Although that could be really sketchy for Speed Demons.

The problem with that is due to how its coded, we can't fly over bases and have bases fly over planets or something like that, so it's one or the other (again, not a programmer, don't really know).

It's hard to make a system much better than the current one (without some tweaks the current one of course), without going back to 2D or going full 3D.