yes - that is just an exceptionally sluggish ship response compared to the camera - but - its not a bad concept indeed.
but its really like a rubber band, you drag the screen much further around and wait for your ship to "follow". - i believe that FW cap fights are a lot slower than disco cap fights, where a battleship can die in less than a minute - so there s room for such a feature.
what you can NOT do with this camera is to fight bombers and fighters that fly around you - cause the camera is not really "free".
but i gotto say ... respect ... for such a nice solution. it fits to their gameplay
i tested freeworlds - and its a brilliant mod ( from a technical point of view ) - but they got other stuff to deal with than we have - and we have the hundreds of players - they don t.