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ORIGINAL: Gunner98

I have personally always been a proponent of 'Game over Graphics' since way back to 'Tactics II', and have lived the life of real C2 systems that were decidedly 2D. However, I'm changing my mind lately, Command is doing it.

A real C2 system has a bunch of people monitoring it, real pilots flying the AC to give them prompts, pre-set warning parameters etc, in essence a staff within a system. The player doesn't have that, but we give him similar problem sets.

So without turning the game into a 'eye candy' flight simulator, anything that can be done to assist the player in making, what are in reality fairly complex, decisions should be done. As long as it doesn't affect the core elements of the game.

So: decision support - good; eye candy: bad. Tricky balance.

Just my $0.02CAD

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