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That did refer to the lens flares, right? Not to somebody who just turned 40?

Looks nice, but what I would really want is true brightness scaling per distance from the star.

IIRC, 30+ AU from a G-Type star, you can't really determine which pinpoint of light is the star in that system, which means most of the light you would be getting would be from the star field that surrounds you. Could be interesting.

Or you could take sun/star as referencing the distance one is from a star. Far away suns are stars. Close stars are the sun. et cetera.

As considering this sort of quibble only comes up in pretend scenarios with pretend spessships being flown by pretend spessmen in the vicinity of, generally, pretend orbital bodies, its not really something anyone has a purely factual basis to reference when discussing terminology.

For instance, if we were to colonize one of the kepler planets, the star of that system would more than likely be referred to as "the sun" for all intents and purposes. Although there might be people walking around screaming about how "THAT IS NOT THE SUN THAT IS A STAR! THE "SUN" IS LIGHTYEARS AWAY!!" But some mysterious accident would be likely to befall such an individual.


But otherwise, yea, the solar flare vs lens flare thing is pretty damned bad.

Still can't look at it without my eyes stinging..

Also...those green and blue green stars are gorgeous. The vertical one gives a very specific sci-fi feel I am enjoying. :D

When are we going to see binary stars? The vast majority of star systems in our galaxy are multiple star systems, so it might be interesting to have multiple stars to warp to.

Nice lens flares, looking forward to see them in game.

Where will the vertical one end up, WH space?

But that's not what it means. Sun is a proper noun, a name, referring to one specific star. It doesn't mean the star we're closest to (wherever we happen to be), it means the star that Earth is orbiting.

What you're suggesting is the equivalent of calling every planet that we colonize Earth, or calling every city we build New York.

If we were to colonize a planet around a named star, we wouldn't start calling it the Sun. It's not like the Sun is the only star that has a name. We have names for thousands of stars. And we can easily name even more stars if they become important enough to us.

Allow me at this point to point out - since nobody else seem to have noticed - that these are LENS flares and not SOLAR flares. Or rather STELLAR flares as could be argued by someone really fond of posting.

There.

What I'm suggesting is language evolves based upon usage. Were we to terraform and colonize mars, we would probably maintain such colloquialisms as "toiling in the earth" and referring to "dirt" as "earth." Rather than referring to martian dirt as "Mars" or what have you. That would not mean we're calling Mars, Earth, it would simply mean we're calling "dirt" "earth."

There would always be "that guy" walking around screaming about people referring to "Mars" as "earth" or what have you, but like in the previous hypothetical, some mysterious accident would eventually befall him.

Terms like "sun burn" and "sunlight" wouldn't change depending upon whatever solar system you're in, unless you're talking to "That Guy," who is mysteriously still alive, despite all his "accidents."

But hey, if you want to get really, really pedantic (and I have a hunch, that yes, you do) the term "earth" and "sun" predates our definitions of planets/stars. Therefore it wouldn't be completely outside the realm of possibility to adapt said terms to what they referred to originally. Sun = bright hot ball in sky, earth = thing you're standing on. Also earth's proper name is "Terra," our Star is "Sol," our moon is "Luna," but all these terms get used in contexts not specifically referring to their Proper Noun namesakes.


Allow me to point this out - Since you didn't seem to notice - Most everyone in the thread noticed that. CCP, on the other hand... is CCP.