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CCP continues to make Eve look more beautiful by the day. Updating ship models, shaders, asteroid belts, effects, sounds, etc etc. Still I miss something I had experienced in the long gone past which made the game for me an amazing place to be in.

A living environment.

In the past some of the Eve ratting missions or anoms had amazing background space tornadoes, gas eruptions, electrical storms, etc http://i.imgur.com/guxcYuB.jpg

So I always wondered why CCP removed them from the game. They were an amazing addition to running missions. I could just sit there and just watch the space tornadoes sweep across large sections of the system. Sadly soon as you warp out of the mission it was gone.

So my thought is. What if CCP could reintroduce them? Have them not being attached to a mission or anom but use them as CCP use planets in a system. Have them in certain positions in a system so they don't look static on background map like Eve's star background.

Lore wise it could be that the Sleepers/Jovians used a devise that had cataclysmic effects on certain systems, engulfing the entire system or parts of it. And since the Amarrian Empire brought out new shielding technology Amarrians or other factions could have advanced it and use it for planetary, station and ship shielding.

As anoms and sigs pirate factions would rather hide near a cataclysmic effect then a planet since Naval Forces would rather not get to close to it due the effects( to close and shielding would fail) or the pirates are hard to detect. A nice hiding spot.


So what kind of environments am I speaking off?
Well we could have:

Space tornado's
Electrical storms
Worthless giant asteroids or ice chunks.
Explosive asteroids ( their volatile nature makes them explode on contact with their own kind )
Gas eruptions
Nebula's ( like the gas sites, only massively huge )
A ship grave yard
For lore events have huge battles in the background, explosions, etc


I know that this would ask allot of cpu from your pc but since CCP has added the ability to turn certain features on or off. You could just do that or put them on a lower setting.

But come on people. Wouldn't it not be an amazing experience to have a massive battle inside of an electrical storm?

As for the game, this would attract more new players to the game since the it's not only gameplay that makes the game. Visuals also are a huge part of getting new players. I bet that allot of new players want to play the game if they see a video of a fleet engagement near a giant space tornado

I'm happy to hear any opinions on this topic, positive and critical.