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Not this round, since their backgrounds are far more recent than the rest of New Eden. We felt it most pressing to update the old backgrounds, and will/may eventually get to wormholes later...

Yes, there is database work being done which allows for customization of singular solar systems, such as the New Eden system. However, we won't be able to cover all of these unique systems before releasing the Winter Expansion, but we made sure to have the tech there to allow us to do that, as it feels pretty important to a lot of us.

Was going to write a witty answer about rendering HTML in space thus allowing you to add friends on EVE Gate in space, but realized that it wouldn't be that funny so I won't.

Would definitely like to see this, it's something I've always wanted from the graphics and it would really change how the game looks... make the solar systems look more dynamic.

This may have been mentioned but especially from a nullsec dwellers perspective, will this cause more lag in larger engagements and can it be turned off/down in the graphics settings if your PC struggles with it?

I'm willing to accept the regional thing. The distances between systems in a region tends to be small, but the regional divides are often a few light years. More variation is better, but this is most definitely a good start.

A region sized granularity for the skyboxes is going to feel odd in large areas like Domain. Will these get split up to use different images?


Something that I noticed a long time ago: all stargates and stations have the same orientation - specifically they point "south". Will stargates be realigned (along the X-Y plane at least) to point towards their destination's celestial phenomena? Otherwise it will feel very odd knowing you are traveling north towards Caldari space but always being shot towards Amarr.


Has CCP considered using a compositing technique for rendering the skyboxes on demand? With this system each celestial phenomena would have a few dozen renders on its own, and then they would be scaled and positioned in the sky and composited by the client to display a unique skybox for each system/constellation. This would allow for higher granularity and low storage use, but at the expense of being able to hand tweak each one.

I enjoy the fact that CCP states that this is a CHANGE and that some of us will hate it.

I appreciate the heads up and sorta disarms me when I may dislike it. So my expectations won't by super high till I make a judgement my self. I like this mature style of Hype... it is not empty like saying it is simply AWSOME.


Thanks for kicking the Angry soap box from under me before I even get on it!! LOL

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Well written blog

This please, I would to have the old nebulae as a desktop background.


I mean they are still cool nebulae, even if they are 8 years old. But you also dont want to forget how far you came from or where you came from.

Apologies in advance for the abuse of parenthetical statements in the below reply:

Do you think there is the capabilities within the new Carbon framework to make interactable celestial events affect ships like they do in wormholes such as a star having a coronal mass ejection that suddenly effects certain things on the ships, like sensors (like causing locked targets to drop or creates a sensor recalibration timer) or even damaging shields since CME's send out large amounts of EM radiation?

Another thought I had, which I'll also put into the suggestion forum, is that some systems out in low and nullsec could have stars that are at different points in their lifetime, and as such affect the stability of the star. For example, Type 1a supernovas where a star sheds its outer corona and engulfs nearby planets/moons. I can see it even perhaps obliterate POS's or cause severe damage to their forcefields, or even perhaps RF it so that it forces the owner to quickly react and take down their POS before it's timer runs out and the star damages it further. For particularly high value systems, like those with lots of rare resource moons, it would add a new game dynamic.

One could also imagine forseeable destruction of entire systems by Type II supernovae, one which involves a stars core collapse that annihilates all celestial objects within it. It could even cut off certain parts of space while the occupants left behind in these disconnected systems have to find a way back out with WH's, jump bridges or getting someone to create a bridge to another system or use their Titans to evacuate. It would add mini-disasters that could actually happen with evolved space explorers like ourselves, much as it did with the people of the original Eden. Could you imagine what would happen if your entire alliance was cut off for everyone, scrambling to find a solution to reconnect? Ah, the mind runs wild with such ideas. I need to stop now. =)

I like the change in colors as you progress from land of the all mighty carebear to the lands of lions, tigers & … well we already had bears, so sharks maybe?

This kind of scares me though…

Am I going to suddenly find myself in some alternate dimension where stellar phenomenon produce patterns of forest camouflage?