Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.

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Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.

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Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.

What?
Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.
Why?
We have 16:9 screens, and spaceships would be easier to design that way.
Optional
Make the view flippable or rotaetable, so right-to-left reading cultures can have the ship flying in the "right" direction.
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Not a bad idea, unfortunately I think it's way too late as it would break everyone's spaceship!

If there's just a setting to rotate the view, but not change anything in game, that wouldn't be too bad. Or are there any entities that can't be rotated, but treat a certain direction specially? (because then players would be totally confused)
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All of my spaceships are wide, so they naturally fit my screen better. So they'd be broken by this change.
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Feature Exists:
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AileTheAlien wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:25 pm All of my spaceships are wide, so they naturally fit my screen better. So they'd be broken by this change.
It's funny that building wide is non-optimal, but all the gui and errything else suggests otherwise :lol:
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aka13 wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:43 pm
AileTheAlien wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:25 pm All of my spaceships are wide, so they naturally fit my screen better. So they'd be broken by this change.
It's funny that building wide is non-optimal, but all the gui and errything else suggests otherwise :lol:
Non optimal for what?

While many of my ship are relatively tall+thin for speed, I have a few that are short and wide because they don't need speed, but do need lots of collectors - more of a combine harvester type shape.
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Oh I find the wide ones most fun as well, but optimizing for speed the width is more important than the weight, as you know.
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eugenekay wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:25 pm Feature Exists:
Screenshot 2024-12-22 122129.png
Screenshot 2024-12-22 122257.jpg

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But it also fixes 119141 Thruster side panel doesn't fit screen on default UI scale.
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Post by GTG3000 »

+1 to the rotate setting

It'd be nice to have more of my ship on screen, but rebuilding it all is a no-go at this point.
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Re: Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.

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:x
Muche wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 7:17 pm
eugenekay wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:25 pm Feature Exists:
Screenshot 2024-12-22 122129.png
Screenshot 2024-12-22 122257.jpg

(This is a Joke)
But it also fixes 119141 Thruster side panel doesn't fit screen on default UI scale.
:D :D :D

My “Gaming Desktop” is 7680 x 4320 (4x 4K displays)…. Unable to Reproduce.
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Re: Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.

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eugenekay wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 10:32 pm :x
Muche wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 7:17 pm
eugenekay wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:25 pm Feature Exists:
Screenshot 2024-12-22 122129.png
Screenshot 2024-12-22 122257.jpg

(This is a Joke)
But it also fixes 119141 Thruster side panel doesn't fit screen on default UI scale.
:D :D :D

My “Gaming Desktop” is 7680 x 4320 (4x 4K displays)…. Unable to Reproduce.
Please ship hardware so I can check if the workaround is working properly :)
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Re: Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.

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Sulc wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 4:22 pm Make spaceships fly from left to right instead of bottom to top.
like this veloce vessel piglet :

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