Planets are circles, ships are symbols

March 14, 2006 4:59 AM from

Any clue what I have done? And I just recently purchased the game, and I did look around the forums... but I have no clue how this even happened? One minute I saw them fine, next they were just a bunch of symbols. Read the manuel and didn't find any way to toggle 3D/2D, if thats what I did.

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Reply #1 March 14, 2006 6:00 AM from

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Whatever I did, it affects every new game as well. I see the suns in 3D just fine, but everything else turned into symbols. It seems like this should be something used when zoomed all the way out, but I can't find any way to change it back to 3D.

Reply #2 March 14, 2006 6:04 AM from

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I am guessing that you have just zoomed out and thats being recorded between games. I am also guessing that you dont have a middle mouse button to zoom in and out. Given those guesses are right (?), you need to find the key you accidentally hit to zoom back in. That's the only idea I have given that what you said sounds like a zoomed out system (i.e. Suns are coloured and 3d and the rest are symbols)

Reply #3 March 14, 2006 6:07 AM from

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My zoom doesn't matter, I can zoom all the way in and they are still just symbols.

I'll provide an image in a moment.

Reply #4 March 14, 2006 6:12 AM from

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Reply #5 March 14, 2006 6:14 AM from

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Either press + to zoom in (although you said that's not it).

Or

Press 1 or 2 to change the view for the map.

Reply #6 March 14, 2006 6:16 AM from

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Its not zoom, or the view. I've done 1-5, always the same.

The icon to the top left is one of my small defense craft, and targeted is my homeworld.

Reply #7 March 14, 2006 6:48 AM from

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I thought that the zooming in/out strategic view was an almost hidden feature, but now you have something even more hidden

Reply #8 March 14, 2006 7:31 AM from

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Ah well, nothing a good reinstall can't fix. If I figure out how I did that I'll post the bug.

Reply #9 March 14, 2006 7:42 AM from

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Maybe you changed the "tactical view zoom level" in the Interface's option screen.

Reply #10 March 14, 2006 7:56 AM from

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... that'd be it, but I never changed any of my options. Odd. But I just tried that and it did it again, changed it back and fixed.

Reply #11 March 14, 2006 8:15 AM from

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Before I patched to the latest update, I think the left and right arrows controlled a "master zoom" or something like that. After the patch it has no effect anymore.

Reply #12 March 14, 2006 9:37 AM from

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I think this is a major problem with the game and should be posted as a probl;em. This should definately be remedied int the next patch

Reply #13 March 14, 2006 10:04 AM from

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Please check your "Tactical Map Zoom Level" slider in the Interface tab of the options screen. Around 25 is the default. You can adjust this option to choose how close or how far you can zoom in before the map changes to tactical/icon mode.

You can also press the keys 1 - 5 to change to different camera angles and zoom levels. This may help as well.

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