Can't make up my mind it seems but hopefully I will stick with this style. I am going to make it like minecraft but in space and I am calling it spacecraft. Lets see if they sick their lawyers at me.

I DID IT!

I made 32 * 32 = 1024 tiles of Sprites in 3D space move at only ~40 frames per second when viewing the whole of them. Now I just need to optimize it for tiles that are far away to update them less often (talking maybe skip 2 frames then update it. These are static sprites with no animations. The image used was 32 by 32 pixels. This does include light calculations and many other gpu operations. It does not stutter with movement though! This is one step forward towards my 3D SS13 clone.