Quote Originally Posted by cronodragon
In Sins of a Solar Empire, the ships move and rotate around the arena (a gravitational well). You can rotate the arena clicking on it and moving the mouse, and when you hover on a ship, it is centered and the mode is changed to an arena that moves around it, to return to the other mode you just click on the arena again. It's a cool system to track space ships.

Another feature is that you can zoom in/out the ships. When the camera gets too far, the units are shown as icons. When the zoom is nearer the ships are actual 3D models. You should give it a try to get some nice ideas.
Neat! thanks, I will try it out

cheers,
Paul