EVE General Discussion

I remember when a new patch came out year or two ago that change the way space looked in the game. They took away the old nebulae and put in all this new stuff. Some of it looks good but half or most of the systems are just.... well overgrown with clouds where it either looks like a cloudy gloomy day in seattle or there is so much bright nebulae you have to constantly move your camera.

Who decided it was ok to paint so much clouds and nebulae in these systems, it looks great at first then gets really old. Gosh what i wouldnt give to just see black space with bright stars! Are all the stars in EVE in the middle of nebulae or something? I mean it takes up the entire screen as you pan around! cant we get some pretty galaxies or nebulae in the distance with most of the sky just dark space?

just my 50cents worth

I did not read anything of what you just wrote.

Try leaving highsec. Its much darker out in nullsec.

I acutally love the In-Your-Face Nebulaes. The problem is I live in between the Green Gallante Nebulae and the Yellow Amarr Nebulae. I want to be in one. Can't get enough of 'em.

In response to Bazooka Betty's question I did some research and it seems that the "nebula" are actually dynamic in that the way they look is relative to which system you happen to be in, so if you're in a Gallente border system for example you'll be able to see the Amarr nebula in the distance and vice versa.

This is actually kind of tempting me to take a run out into I guess western nullsec so I can find a system where I'll see the whole Gallente nebula on my left and Amarr on my right.

Must not look.... must focus on nebula...

I reckon the reason is cause space is pretty boring by itself... if your lucky you'll see little white dots.

Nebula are pretty, interesting and cool... gives the art department something to do rather that throw white dots at a black piece of paper....

And now back to my motorboat :)

Meh,GD has seen better.

Sure they do. Radio telescopes measure a specific range of wavelengths just like our eyes measure a specific range of wavelengths.

They're not colors that our eyes can perceive, because they're not dealing with light that we can perceive. But light at 500 micrometers represents a color (the low end of the microwave spectrum) the same way light at 500 nanometres does (the low end of Green).

But yeah, the pretty colors are either used to provide useful contrast for those poor Astronomers whose eyes aren't yet sensitive to sub-MM light, allowing them to discern details more easily, or they're chosen by an artist trying to get the best looking picture for release.

And what pretty colors they can be. Especially when it's the second kind. The pictures actually used to look at the data are mostly in black and white, when there are pictures at all.

That's just the silt being churned up form the sea floor.