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What everyone else said really.

Less blockiness when zoomed in. More immersion through more regularly updated textures when jumping through systems. Change background for constellations instead of regions. Dim saturation. Put nebulas on the map.

Just now looking at the latest build. I posted this in another thread, but figure I'll cut and paste for anyone who might miss it there-

Looks like some color has been added back, which is nice. No longer so brown and drab, definitely red back in Metropolis. The bright spots are not so bright that one can't see a module's cycle light. This is an improvement.

I don't know what the parameters are that the art and effects people are working with, but if there were a way to combine the current bright spot muting with the pop of color that there was in the initial iteration it might be grand. Of course each person having their fingers on the dials might arrive at a different end point. But thanks for adding some color back in while keeping the bright spots muted.

Also, btw, I discovered what appears to be subtle new skins or very slight remodels on the Ishkur and Enyo If so, thumbs up to those. Of course it could be that I just haven't sat in one for such a long time, still awaiting the 4th bonuses for the assault frigs.

edit- nope, it had indeed been so long since i sat in an af I forgot what they looked like. It was just the lighting effects on the hulls. They are beautiful none the less, and could still use a 4th bonus

Some of the directions of the nebula don't look right. For instance Amarrian space looks closer to Caldari space than Minmatar space and Syndicate closer to Federation space than Placid even though these regions aren't really this way on the map.

i missed the previous build, so the starfield you guys have added was very new for me. and it's awwwwwwsome! really really great looking, imo. especially like the bigger stars(or are they veryfar away galaxies?) and lots and lots of stars everywhere in general.

what still saddens me, is how you have treated Essence region and that there are backgrounds for entire regions only.

while it appears that the art designers were working a bit on the nebula in Essence and added a bit of dust on the edges, some additional nebula "parts" on the sides and generally made it a bit bigger, it still does not compare to the awesome view from Sinq Laison and loses badly against Verge Vendor(you have worked on that one again, right? it's seems that it got even more fantastic).
i guess(comparing views from Genesis, Sinq and Everyshore) you have rendered the nebula in Essence from the low sec "above" Verge Vendor, where it kind of makes sense to look like it does. but please consider that Essence sort of wraps around Verge and that there are major mission hubs in Essence sitting basically around the middle part(Cat) and beneath it(Ignebaener). there is also a still somewhat important trading hub in Oursulaert(Cat seems to grow, too). by letting the background focussing on just s small part in low sec you sort of " visually nerf" a major part of Gallente high sec

also i want to stress again that you guys should work on delivering constellation backgrounds asap. just comparing traveling from Placid through Metserel, Villore, Cat into Verge Vendor region on TQ and Singularity the lack of change and progression is painfully obvious.
on TQ i get into constellation around Metserel and instatly recognize it without even looking at the names. Villore is also very typical with it's dark background, same as Cat which is also quite unique in the Gallente space with its bluish background combined with the red star. on Singularity it's just the same brown stuff in the sky through many systems

Really want word on this ;_;

Gotta say, the Fade nebula just looks bad. Not just aesthetically dull, but really turns on the colour banding. TQ's backgrounds don't have such harsh colour banding.

I'm a little shocked that this hasn't been said yet (or I missed it), but the background stars are simply TOO BRIGHT.

The new nebulae are perfect, literally perfect, but the star-field was overdone. Stars are not this bright in space, not even close. Yes, of course I also understand that nebulae are also not this bright and must be generated with false coloring applied to long exposure photographs outside the visible spectrum, but there is NO reason to make stars appear as they do in these type of pictures as well. Simply put, for this, this just doesn't fee like space. And, as a rocket scientists, I really care about these types of things :x

I don't believe that we need a complete return to what is on TQ right now, because I like the more viable field, especially now that is reflect real-eve-world positions of the other star systems. AND I do like that the close systems appear much brighter, but the BACKGROUND field is too bright. Please, please pass this along to your art dept and consider toning it down. It would be a three-fold improvement: 1) more realistic 2) highlight your addition of representative stars in the field 3) make the nebulae stand out more.

Yeah, I like the star field the way it is now.

Love the new neblulas, was going to say that it is a bit disconserting the gates not facing where they lead to on the backgounds but that seems to be sorted.

The only complaint that i could possbilaly make is that I might have proffered you to spend the time on updating ship asthetics but the backgounds did need doing so thats not really a complaint I suppose.

Did I mention yet that the nebula's dark areas, the ones that are supposed to be unlit actually show the background stars?

Damn, someone messed up the alpha channels, ending up just turning black areas to transparent and now instead of dark dust obscuring stars they instead show everything behind.