In some of the 600i concept art, we saw a giant 3D map inside. Is that still there? And if so, will it be functional?
TL;DRThe 3D map is still in the 600i but won't be functional at first, because mini 3D ship icons and click-to-target selection don't exist yet; once they do, it should work almost for free.
It's still there, but it won't be functional in the initial release. It's going to function the same as the big capital ship war globe hollow sphere things. So they are, in essence, a 3D radar that you have in your cockpit, scaled up, and rather than being little dots, they are the little mini ship models. So it is going to behave like that, but we're just not enabling that at the moment.
Whilst I'm here, I'll just say there's two things stopping us making it happen at the moment. First thing is we don't have the ability to change those little icons into mini 3D ships at the moment. So you just have the little small icons blown up really big, which looks terrible. And we don't have the ability to click on them to do targeting and selecting them, which is something Chris is really keen on having in all the ships. And in fact, even on the small 3D radars in ships, when you can zoom really far in, they will change into those 3D models, and then you can select on them if you want. It's the same as looking in that direction and targeting it. When we have those, then the big ships which have those big holospheres will get all that essentially for free.