I've actually had alot of fun just watching people play, mostly once the big fleets start rolling out. I watched a game yesterday where Paul Boyer (mormegil) was testing a logistics strategy where you'd make TONS of small ships and put them into a massive fleet, so basically he had about 3 swarms of 30-some fighters flying around the map, taking out the enemy ships like a swarm of locusts.

Very entertaining to watch.

I actually just saw a co-worker testing the game in portrait mode (1024X1600), and it was actually REALLY nice. I meen, the cutscenes play a bit funky (imtgine letterbox where the black bars are about the size of the movie) and the intro planet stretches funny, but it's pretty useful (listboxes are nice and long, you get to see alot of the map). Give it a try when you can