Mission accomplished

Indeed. I've been reading Revelation Space, and am quite engrossed in it already. It's been taking time out of my visits to Skyrim, which is saying something, since I already have over 50 hours in the game!

So is this comparable to Wing Commander?

From looking at the web site, it *appears* to be more sim, less space opera. But I haven't tried it yet.

I don't have that particular game, but I do have an earlier one. They're very sim-like. One of the few to have Newtonian physics and planetfall. Not really like Wing Commander.

Well its got some very good aspects to it.

Like gravitaional pull.
shield management 4/4
energy management Shield/weapons.
customisable ships
fuel consumption

I wouldn't call it a full sim, more like sim like as it retains its game play. Yes you can rotate whilst travelling in a direction but rotation is still non newtonian. I.e. Roll left and it will stop when no more commands. Pitch up and it will stop with no more inputs.

So newtonian in the sense of forward, back and sideways linear movement. Non newtonian with pitch bank roll.

A good game with a good crowd. Worth the money IMO

Yeah, it's "Newtonian Styled" physics, being able to turn on and off the "IDS" or, "Inertial Dampening System".

But I can totally see how true Newtonian physics would get very annoying, confusing, and vomit-inducing in a combat type game.

And you can easily explain away the lack of Newtonian pitch, yaw, and roll by saying that those are controlled by a very sophisticated computer and precise, powerful maneuvering thrusters, each outputting an amount of force equal and opposite to the direction of spin in order to stabilize the craft when it's time to stop maneuvering. Heck, by starting the opposite forces before the maneuver is finished, but with lesser power, ramping one up as the other faded, you could decrease the time to a full stop considerably.

I would think that by the time we have the technology to pilot small, single seat spacecraft through the vast reaches of space that we would have worked something like this out.

It's what I envision in my mind to help keep the immersion, anyway.

I think that is how they describe it in game renic and I think that satisfies me aswell.

As for technology wise, I think we are already there. Ring laser gyros are very accurate and would be (I assume) able to correct for linear or rotaional forces. Well at least they work well on a plane (which is 3d environment)

Look at the external view, with the IDS off, and start a roll (or pitch or yaw). When the player centres the stick, you will see that the ships fires thrusters to automatically counteract the roll (or yaw or pitch), so the game actually simulates precisely what you mention, and also is perfectly consistent with Newtonian physics. It just does not seem like it, because the system is completely automated, and to maintain the ship spinning on an axis, one would have to continue with a control input, even though no fuel is being used, and there is no atmosphere to slow or stop the spin.