John McDuff
Caldari
Jovian Labs
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Posted - 2007.12.25 13:43:00 -
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Lemme take some stuff i'd love to see from a number of posts in this thread. For one, drop the damn nebula backgrounds indeed! In stead black space would be beautiful, maybe with some subtle light effects on ships and stations eminating from planets as well as the sun right now. And ofcourse stars, millions of very small stars, very much like you see on a clear night at sea.
Keeping in the nebulas in some form would be good, but make them special, something to make a day's quest, especially when someone is new to the game. Make them grow when you approach the area they are actually in, and then make them span an entire constellation. Make it markedly different, hell even make it a tactical difference, with sensors and cloaks working in whole other fashions. In the nebulas make it as bright as things are now, on the 'voids', for lack of a better word - make it so dark that your ship is almost invisible apart from some subtle lights. This would also make certain places know for their beauty, or some other places for their lack of anything, ppl would need to take into consideration what kind of area they would want to start a long-running operation in.
I don't wanna dictate what it should look like mind you, just attempting to sketch how much a more detailed and sober aproach could add.
Also the warp tunnel thing mentioned would be a great addition to realism and believability. Seriously, the way warping works now is quite silly. People laugh at spaceships warping through planets and stations in the way we laugh about fairy creatures doing the macarena. Apart from that, it would add a host of tactical possibilities.
A last thing mentioned here i'd like to point to is the planar nature of our space now. It would be a lot more interesting indeed if space was truely three dimensional. But changing that would be such a fundamental change of the entire game that i doubt we would like it to ever happen - that's more like a whole new game.
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