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jump effect in right direction would be really nice also but not really needed lol

A resolution upgrade would be out of the question at this late point as it would require new renders and a whole set of new performance testing. The quality may improve as the graphics programmers look more into the compression algorithms.

Saw a few numbers the source raw was like 400mb render captures for Each One. The entire model is probably couple gigs massive.

A lot of the blockiness seems to be a result of the fact that the textures are using an 8 bit colorspace. This creates banding/artifacting that is kind of needless. Any chance we could at least get 16 bit colorspace on the backgrounds?

Echoing that. Some of the nebulae just lift the game to a new level. But in other nebulae the colour banding is the worst you'll see in the game, and it's always there to be seen.

If you could respond with what system/gate you noticed this on I will investigate it today.

Yup we now have actual stars in the background. They should give you a sense of how far the jumps are and also convey how dense the universe is at each individual point. They even have the correct coloring based on the type of the stars.

@ Jodis Talvanen: I can make sure the money goes to good use

@ Vincent Athena: Regional jumps can be very long and it is not guaranteed that you see the destination solar system's sun. But please tell us which gate you saw this on and I will check whether something is afoul.

We are working on reducing the blockiness (compression artifacts) and want to get a solution that looks good and performs well.

The stargate orientation will be covered in a Dev Blog soon.

I honestly was just thinking the first time I saw the new nebulae last week : "Man, I wish you could see adjacent stars much brighter than the background star map". Honest to god. But then I thought, "eh, they're doing so much other stuff they'll never get around to it". A week later I see the post that they've added it. CCP has been making an impression lately, that's for sure!

I have for a long time found too many things in space in eve too bright. The bloom of some suns, the clouds in some sites (worlds collide sansha in entrance as one example). These things can be so bright you can't see your mods and it hurts to look at the screen.

The previous patch on sisi was somewhat jarring in places with the nebula. Parts of Caldari space were too bright. Metropolis and Heimatar were bright, but tbh it grew on me. It is really only parts that were too bright. I'm glad you heard complaints about the brightness.

However, your fix with this last patch I don't think addressed the real problem. Instead of just turning down some of the bright spots, you turned down whole regions uniformly and possibly too much. Metropolis is now rather drab and tired looking, almost brown and not the pretty orange and red I was surprised you had accomplushed with the previous version.

Please consider another adjustment back toward how it was.

I had that feeling too, but then again... We're hell's pirate, in the sea of blood.