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Can you have the Dev Blog authors post links in the forums to their own Dev Blogs so that the +1's for a well-written and exciting Dev Blog goes to them and CCP Guard does not hoard all the +1's? ;)

Looks great, a feeling of depth makes it real.

I came to Eve because of the fantastic graphics, I stayed for the ships and variety of things to do.

The learning curve was not hard really, since you get to learn in small steps. Incarna would have made it easier thou. Incarna as shared lounges, not private CQ vanity rooms, would bring new blood. No styles rip off, just standing lounges to meet and form up groups with others.

Great job!!

Class 1-2 Wormholes have a dark blue and green color.
Class 3 wormholes have a pinkish white color.
Class 4 wormholes have a greenish-orange color.
Class 5 wormholes have an imposing orange and black color
Class 6 wormholes have a dangerous looking blood red color.

The cube maps ( that's the technical term for the nebula textures ) are actually hand crafted, starting with 3d generated clouds, then color-corrected and touched up by artists to remove rendering artifacts and add extra "oomhp" to the renders. Each cube map sees a considerable amount of work. So if we would have wanted more, they would have looked less cool or taken longer to produce, meaning that the artists would be tied up painting nebulas and not fixing lag.... It's always a balancing act. That said, the system we developed alongside rendering the nebulas does allow us to customize each solarsystem, and we will be making use of that in the future, for lore and such.

wormhole sky boxes look awesome already, wouldn't you agree?

We don't expect hand drawn textures for exry system in new eden, but simply warping your skybox will get us a long way to system level variations.

Look at it this way, these are cube maps, just imagine taking the cube and increasing the size of one side as you 'jump towards it. It doesn't need to be a big jump either.

Nebulae in unknown space? No biggie. PCOs making unknown space PI more difficult. Me no likie. Removing ABCs from unknown space or at least C1 and C2. Just plain dumb.

Making these incredible new backgrounds available as wallpapers? +1 from me!

Region specific backgrounds? Actually makes sense. Remember that space is BIG. Really BIG. Moving from one Region to another should make that more obvious then simply one system to another...if we subscribe to the theory that regions are formed by systems that are grouped close together in physical space. That is why larger jump gates are required to go from one region to another...the regions are further apart.

Someone said something about regions being intertwined but my understanding was always that the jump gates were placed due to space forming a better path to a different system from that point. Which is why some gates might be physically close together in some systems while others are over 100Au apart in other systems.

No, but there is plenty of other stuff on their list. POS overhaul, V3 shaders, new module effects, etc.

I mentioned this on the previous page, and I'm definitely more optimistic about it now.

But there's no dust out that far for your light glow to reflect off of.