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Question to Devs about graphics of stars
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Samuella II
The Destined
#1 - 2016-10-30 12:25:38 UTC
When are we going to have proper update of stars "suns" !?
(making them smaller when warping away and huge when up close ect...)

Please tell us if there are any plans
Rawketsled
Generic Corp Name
#2 - 2016-10-30 22:01:36 UTC
Samuella II wrote:
When are we going to have proper update of stars "suns" !?
(making them smaller when warping away and huge when up close ect...)

Please tell us if there are any plans

What are you talking about? They do get smaller when you warp away from them.
Tiberius NoVegas
NovKor Corp.
#3 - 2016-10-30 23:22:30 UTC
Never seen a Dev respond on the forum.

But this raises another questions ive been curious about. In the entire time EVE has been around, have systems or even cluters ever been added to the game?
Rawketsled
Generic Corp Name
#4 - 2016-10-31 01:47:15 UTC
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Never seen a Dev respond on the forum.

But this raises another questions ive been curious about. In the entire time EVE has been around, have systems or even cluters ever been added to the game?

A few times.

Frigate wormholes (most recent).
Thera.
Wormholes.
Most of the currentl nullsec regions (oldest).

I could be wrong on a few details here. Not the oldest player.
Tiberius NoVegas
NovKor Corp.
#5 - 2016-10-31 01:59:04 UTC
Rawketsled wrote:
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Never seen a Dev respond on the forum.

But this raises another questions ive been curious about. In the entire time EVE has been around, have systems or even cluters ever been added to the game?

A few times.

Frigate wormholes (most recent).
Thera.
Wormholes.
Most of the currentl nullsec regions (oldest).

I could be wrong on a few details here. Not the oldest player.


I knew Wormholes were not apart of the original release. In game you can look around New Eden and see its made up of millions of stars yet we can only reach thousands of them. make you kinda wonder whats out there.
Old Pervert
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-10-31 15:30:06 UTC
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
In game you can look around New Eden and see its made up of millions of stars yet we can only reach thousands of them. make you kinda wonder whats out there.



What's out there? New content! Soon (tm).
Elenahina
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-11-01 11:09:34 UTC
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Rawketsled wrote:
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Never seen a Dev respond on the forum.

But this raises another questions ive been curious about. In the entire time EVE has been around, have systems or even cluters ever been added to the game?

A few times.

Frigate wormholes (most recent).
Thera.
Wormholes.
Most of the currentl nullsec regions (oldest).

I could be wrong on a few details here. Not the oldest player.


I knew Wormholes were not apart of the original release. In game you can look around New Eden and see its made up of millions of stars yet we can only reach thousands of them. make you kinda wonder whats out there.


The rest of the galaxy - New Eden is only a star cluster in a much larger galaxy. The areas we can reach are the ones where jump gates have been built, since the only way to get a new gate to an uncharted system is to ship it there the long way, expanding takes a LOOOOOOONG time.

Eve is like an addiction; you can't quit it until it quits you. Also, iderno
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#8 - 2016-11-01 11:19:15 UTC
Elenahina wrote:
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Rawketsled wrote:
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Never seen a Dev respond on the forum.

But this raises another questions ive been curious about. In the entire time EVE has been around, have systems or even cluters ever been added to the game?

A few times.

Frigate wormholes (most recent).
Thera.
Wormholes.
Most of the currentl nullsec regions (oldest).

I could be wrong on a few details here. Not the oldest player.


I knew Wormholes were not apart of the original release. In game you can look around New Eden and see its made up of millions of stars yet we can only reach thousands of them. make you kinda wonder whats out there.


The rest of the galaxy - New Eden is only a star cluster in a much larger galaxy. The areas we can reach are the ones where jump gates have been built, since the only way to get a new gate to an uncharted system is to ship it there the long way, expanding takes a LOOOOOOONG time.

Yeah, the Old Man Star chronicle explains that well:

https://community.eveonline.com/backstory/chronicles/old-man-star/
Samuella II
The Destined
#9 - 2016-11-02 10:50:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Samuella II
Rawketsled wrote:
Samuella II wrote:
When are we going to have proper update of stars "suns" !?
(making them smaller when warping away and huge when up close ect...)

Please tell us if there are any plans

What are you talking about? They do get smaller when you warp away from them.


No they do not unfortunately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2iCxp9JTQ
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_sun_seen_from_planets_de.svg

And Pluto is just 40 AU from our star. In Eve there are systems much bigger.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#10 - 2016-11-02 12:59:45 UTC
Rawketsled wrote:
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Never seen a Dev respond on the forum.

But this raises another questions ive been curious about. In the entire time EVE has been around, have systems or even cluters ever been added to the game?

A few times.

Frigate wormholes (most recent).
Thera.
Wormholes.
Most of the currentl nullsec regions (oldest).

I could be wrong on a few details here. Not the oldest player.



dont forget the added systems for FW

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Samuella II
The Destined
#11 - 2016-11-02 13:42:50 UTC
It would add a lot to immersion of the game I believe. Imagine being to close to a star and getting heat damage. Different light bouncing off the planets, moons, stations, ships makes the game less monotonous and star systems would actually feel much bigger don't you guys think?
I know its a lot of work for CCP but I remember when they have redesigned planets and it was a big deal for eve. It changed and modernised it. Videos made by players would look amazing especially when in warp for example.
Cade Windstalker
#12 - 2016-11-02 15:12:23 UTC
Samuella II wrote:
Rawketsled wrote:
Samuella II wrote:
When are we going to have proper update of stars "suns" !?
(making them smaller when warping away and huge when up close ect...)

Please tell us if there are any plans

What are you talking about? They do get smaller when you warp away from them.


No they do not unfortunately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2iCxp9JTQ
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_sun_seen_from_planets_de.svg

And Pluto is just 40 AU from our star. In Eve there are systems much bigger.


They do get smaller though, just not to the same extent as they would if we were really 40 AU away from a sun sized star.

That said though, Eve is not a hard Sci-Fi universe, and the view we get from our ships is explicitly augmented for our brain's benefit when flying. For example that's why you can see your own cloaked ship while others can't pick you out visually until you start decloaking.

Essentially these Augmented Reality tweaks serve to fulfil gameplay concerns where appropriate.

In this case having the local star be obvious and very visible even when dozens or hundreds of AU away serves as an anchoring point in space for the player, allows them to keep their bearings within the system, and gives the system a cohesive feel since if we used "realistic" star rendering then the local star would blend into the background after around 30AU, quite a small system in Eve terms, and even a quite large star would be almost invisible out past 100AU.

As things stand stars do get smaller and less obvious as you move away from them, but they never get to the point where you can't look around and pick out the local star visually, which IMO makes a fair bit of sense from a gameplay perspective.
Rawketsled
Generic Corp Name
#13 - 2016-11-02 21:18:00 UTC
Samuella II wrote:
Rawketsled wrote:
Samuella II wrote:
When are we going to have proper update of stars "suns" !?
(making them smaller when warping away and huge when up close ect...)

Please tell us if there are any plans

What are you talking about? They do get smaller when you warp away from them.


No they do not unfortunately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2iCxp9JTQ
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_sun_seen_from_planets_de.svg

And Pluto is just 40 AU from our star. In Eve there are systems much bigger.

Looks like Eve to me.