Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What you don't seem to be accounting for is that by the time the sun is reduced to a tolerable brightness, your HUD may very well be too dim to actually see.

Regardless, most of this is pretty moot as the Art Dept has said that when we get the new lighting engine (after V3 is finished and the switch to DX11 happens) they'll be able to make the sun behave much more normally - and plan to. Not only that, but space itself will also be darker when you're very far away from the sun, on account of less light.

the sun is perfect as it is imao.

what could use an overhaul, is the tactical overview.

while the current one is pretty usefull, it seems like it is somehow not finished.

i would LOVE the tactical overview to be enhanced from what it is now.

1- keep the current design (distance rings, range spheres etc, normalised distance)

2- alter the environment colors for enhanced visibility, such as dimming the sun.

3- display the inspace items based on the overview selected, like if i select PVP overview, i see only non-blues etc...

4- add a colored layer on ships that are displayed, using the currently selected overview background settings

and of course, since some ppl woudln't like every of those, add a tab in 'overview settings', so the tactical view options can be enabled or not (for the sun dimming, a 00-7f slider would be cool for ex.)

and for the more advanced user, a xml based config would be awesome, like for the overview, there are already pretty nice things that can be done within the xml, maybe just adding a new section in the overview xml would do?

Yeha, when he's talking about video cards, fiddling with your monitor settings and stuff, I believe he's talking about ingame things aswell. But then again, why should logic be a factor here.

PS: There's a way to turn out the sun in the game, turn off your monitor, that's how it would look like without stars.

Oh god I love that blog. Loved it ever since I first found it, when #6 got shared to me on Facebook.

#6 and #1 remain the best of all time on it, although the Interplanetary Cessna one coming out the week after I started a job in aviation was a great touch.

Well.. no, it really doesn't block out the brightness. If it did, you wouldn't be able to see your skin after putting it on.

Simple short-term workaround: 50% translucent grey panel with high blur sitting behind the target and module panels.

I tend to unpin various UI windows and use them to block out the sun if I happen to be feeling light-sensitive at the time. It works reasonably well most of the time, but sometimes it's better to just dock up and log out.

On a more immersion-related note, I can't help but suspect that either New Eden has some extremely cold stars or the allegedly habitable planets should all actually be baked and seared to various levels of crispiness.

The art department has also mentioned that under the new lighting system they want to implement, being close to the star will make your ship glow. I presume it's something to do with the heat, but that gives rise to other complicated situations like "Will there be hull damage that will destroy your ship after too long? Why doesn't the ship rising in temperature fry your crew and pressure-cook you inside your capsule?" and many other interesting questions.

If they wanted to develop a realistic space game, we'd be zooming around completely out of control as we try in vain to maneuver our ships with a Newtonian physics model.