Why are tactic maps anisotropic?

[Smiling_Spectre]

As I noticed, we have oval moving patterns. I guess that it made for aesthetic pleasure of having "elliptic solar system"... but it doesn't work then. Just because tactic map itself is square. So in reality we have annoyingly slow up-down movement comparing to fast left-right one. Is there any sense of it, except mentioned? And maybe you can consider to change it?

[Zaimat]

In order to keep travel time equal in both directions between sectors we have to keep the current system. It is indeed faster to travel on x-axis inside systems but there is also 2x more distance to cover so it balances out in ETA.

The perspective view is not something we can change as it's ingrained pretty deep in the system and affects various things like game resolution etc.

[Smiling_Spectre]

In order to keep travel time equal in both directions between sectors we have to keep the current system. It is indeed faster to travel on x-axis inside systems but there is also 2x more distance to cover so it balances out in ETA.

The perspective view is not something we can change as it's ingrained pretty deep in the system and affects various things like game resolution etc.

Err... Is it mean that you are keeping track of the tactical movement on the main map? Wow. %) I never thought about it. Thank you for explanation.

But again: I cannot see this 2x distance in the tactical view. It's square! What am I missing?

[keller]

I think what Zaimat is trying to convey is that it is shaped more like a football field (rectangle) than a square.

[Smiling_Spectre]

I think what Zaimat is trying to convey is that it is shaped more like a football field (rectangle) than a square.

I got this part. SO my next question: why I cannot actually _see_ it.

[Zaimat]

Err... Is it mean that you are keeping track of the tactical movement on the main map? Wow. %) I never thought about it. Thank you for explanation.

Yes, the galaxy is seamless in Horizon. We added instanced combat post-launch since players requested it and it's easier to manage combat but if you turn off instanced-combat you can see how it's all one persistent map.

But again: I cannot see this 2x distance in the tactical view. It's square! What am I missing?

It's true, it's rectangular (there is 1216 movement tiles horizontally vs. 646 vertically) in tactical per system.

[Smiling_Spectre]

Hmm. Ok, I'd better show it:



I see square here. And scrolling seems follow this tactic mini-map.

So two questions:

1. Why do you have rectangular map? Would it be possible to make it square to match mini-map?

2. Why am I see square mini-map? Maybe it's better to make it rectangular as it is in reality?