View Distance wont be a problem , im sure.

GC had massive View distances on a Battlefield Scale, it was probably like 2-3 times larger than your regular 42 map, but any bigger and your just dropping the performance to it's knees.

now that you consider there are even more polygons on screen with 2142, to see everything on the map at once would just kill your computer, unless it was extremely Fast.

Now as for lag, I doubt there could be ALL that much lag from it just to see a few large ships across the entire map. Maybe all the little ships  would cause some though, so simply make the draw distance on them shorter than that of the large ships and space stations.  It would be simply awsome to see the enemy fleet or space station from all the way across a map

basically we have been looking over things and options open to us in the beta.

now that we have removed the ceilings we have more options open to us.. thats bout all we can say on this subject at mo without breaking NDA

Even more full than the Galactic Conquest ones, as we're finally able to depart from the whole "grid" issue that plagued GC's maps. Not to mention capital ships, zero gravity, phasers, teleporters, the works!

Can't wait!