Planets are circles, ships are symbols

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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 #5 Top
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 Top
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 Top
I thought that the zooming in/out strategic view was an almost hidden feature, but now you have something even more hidden
Reply #8 Top
Ah well, nothing a good reinstall can't fix. If I figure out how I did that I'll post the bug.
Reply #10 Top
... 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 Top
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 Top

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 Top
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.