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[William Petersen]

I voted 3-D, but should've voted both. Like how EVE does it. "Flaten map" for 2-D, or uncheck it for 3-D.

I don't understand how/why no one has made a 3-D map of the Inner Sphere before. It should be a /relatively/ simple task once you have all the information for the planets. You know their projection onto the 2-D plane, and many, many, relative distances between systems. Surely you could put all that stuff into some program and get it to spit out a 3-D map.

[Therrinian]

Its kinda funny to see that as MW:O released the community warfare module, EVE online released its 3D map Beta. ^^

Both have its strong points, and I think they could learn a lot from eachother.

Take a look:

[Senor Cataclysmo]

Yes yes yes! The lack of 3Dness always bothers me.

[gloowa]

Necrodemus, on 21 June 2012 - 08:41 PM, said:

With this information it should be possible to generate a 3D map that is accurate.

No. If you move even one planet off the plane, distances to all planets are changed, therefore changing cost of transport to this planet and if the planet was at the edge of jump ship range, it could become inaccesible from certain other planets. You cannot take points on 2d plane and turn them into cloud of points in 3d sphere while perserving distances between points.

Edited by gloowa, 10 August 2015 - 04:29 AM.