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[NeutroniumFurnace]

My thought is simple, add a small box that would allow players to view another ship through an auxiliary camera box that doesn't have to be visible all the time. This would allow players to gauge other ships situations while still monitoring their own ships'. This doesn't even have to replace the current switch where the camera is sort of system, this can just be added so that players can get addition info if they want it, but don't HAVE to use it.

[Debido]

Might be useful for people with 1920p screens. People with 1024x768 would probably experience screen clutter. This may also have been suggested previously. Also if you look at early alpha videos of Starsector while it was called Starfarer, it actually had something similar to what you describe. Alex removed that feature, not sure why, but he had his reasons.

[NeutroniumFurnace]

If it is put in the same corner as the FPS counter, it should keep from cluttering the screen since there is only 1 really small thing up there to begin with.

[Dark.Revenant]

I foresee this being a very difficult feature to add.  While I believe this is possible to do without requiring more advanced rendering techniques normally found in OpenGL 3, the fact of the matter is that the game still uses a fixed rendering order; the whole renderer basically has to be run again on a different location in space and drawn to a small section of the window.  This is a rather significant performance hit and could possibly require a major overhaul of how the rendering logic works.  Alex can shed more light.