Originally by: Tatiana Valenko

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Originally by: Darcha

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Actually, space isn't black at all, it's just mostly comprised of dark matter. and not to get technical but black isn't a color at all, it's only the absence of light reflecting a color (ie you see it as black, but it isn't black at all, there's just no reflection receptable by our visual spectrum)

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Even counting dark matter, the vast majority of the universe (99.9999999999999999%) is empty space.

And black, by definition, is lack of a color (lack of reflected or emitted light).

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Actually space is filled with plasma and there is no such thing as dark matter. Dark matter was made up to make a failing theory (it isnt even a theory technically) work as it didnt work with what was being observed.

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Originally by: LordReaper

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Originally by: Unvisibility

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I actually had a dream like this lastnight.

I dreamt that my brother was flying a freighter and I was escorting him in a frigate into 0.0 and it was very cool cos we were actually piloting the ships but 0.0 was really really dark, all black, and I couldn't see the docking port on the bottom of the station.

Then we got blown up and it turned into World of Warcraft (sort of) and I had to fly on the back on an eagle to get my corpse.

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Get out more.

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Originally by: Frezik

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If you want to get pendinc about it, then you shouldn't see stars much of the time, either. Anytime you're close to a planetary body or station, they should flood the area with enough light to block out most/all the stars.

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Originally by: Del ReyII

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This happened to me when I was messing with the map while jumping, thought it was a cool enough shot.

Linkage

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Originally by: Wrangler

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We don't want to discriminate anyone! We want *both* anti-social *and* social players to grief each other!

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Originally by: Tatiana Valenko

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Actually space is filled with plasma and there is no such thing as dark matter. Dark matter was made up to make a failing theory (it isnt even a theory technically) work as it didnt work with what was being observed.

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Originally by: Ephemeron

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CCP could implement a game menu feature to toggle between 2 texturing styles for all systems. One option would be "lots of nebula", other option could be "few nebula". This would effect client side texture files and shouldn't have any performance side effects.

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Originally by: Politocratis

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Originally by: Frezik

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If you want to get pendinc about it, then you shouldn't see stars much of the time, either. Anytime you're close to a planetary body or station, they should flood the area with enough light to block out most/all the stars.

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For a camera, the human eye has a higher dynamic range

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Originally by: Sameth Daret

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Edited by: Sameth Daret on 31/01/2007 17:30:58

Originally by: Gaven Blands

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Binary Systems?

And what is with the Red Shift and Blue Shift when warping faster than light?

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I thought that even at velocities faster than C , light hitting the ship form the front would be blue due to compresion and be red after passing the ship due to altering wavelength?

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Originally by: Rodrigo Valon

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I am all for making systems, in general, a little darker. Also, systems in 0.0 should be darker too, being further from the center cluster of the galaxy and all. And yes, the option to turn off all star/neubula light (IE - play only in black) is a great, simple idea that I myself would play with periodically.

But from the viewpoint of pure logic, it is starting to really scare me how many posters on this thread seem to be saying "Yes, make all the systems all black, with hardly any variance. Because what we have now is boring. And making everything the same color(or lack there of) will make things fresher and different."

All black is not variety. It is the opposite of variety. You are giving me a headache of Lewis Black-ian proportions.

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Originally by: Frezik

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Originally by: Politocratis

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Originally by: Frezik

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If you want to get pendinc about it, then you shouldn't see stars much of the time, either. Anytime you're close to a planetary body or station, they should flood the area with enough light to block out most/all the stars.

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For a camera, the human eye has a higher dynamic range

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You may be able to see the brightest stars, and some lesser-magnitude stars if your eyes have time to adjust. A full moon can block out the light of many stars, and the Earth viewed from the Moon is a lot brighter than the Moon viewed from the Earth. So if you're near any planetary body, at least a good chunk of the stars should blink out unless your eyes have time to adjust (which is what HDR is simulates).

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 31/01/2007 17:39:45
Dark Matter has been mapped and its existence basically proven beyond all reasonable doubt. If dark matter doesn't exist, then Einstein's theory of gravity is wrong, which is highly unlikely.

Space is not "filled with plasma." The plasma is so low density that its about an atom or two per cubic meter in interstellar and intergalactic space. That isn't "filled with." Its still almost completely empty.

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Originally by: Mr Mozzie

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I reckon it would be cool to have binary stars.

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Originally by: Ikoh

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There is no air in space therefore no resistance t ships travelling. Therefore why to big ships with big engines travel slowly?

Why to big missiles with large propulsion move slowly?

The mechanics of EVE are more like underwater than in space.

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