If Egosoft painted next game(afther x-rebirth) in wild colours how would you react

[samoja]

yesterday i put up a post about what i taught was missing in X, i did a colour comparison ith freelancer, now ill show the FL map for those that did not play it http://igiss.net/images/discovery/disco ... verse2.jpg

So as you see FL universe is surrounded with colorful dust clouds which allowed the devs to make every system visibly different color, if Egosoft did that with its universe, added nebulas, dust clouds and colorful background would you consider it good or bad thing?

[Alan Phipps]

Some similarities to this debate?

[Klord]

That would be great !!!

[TTD]

Someone did a map of the Reunion Universe based on nebula colours found in the game..

[Hemmingfish]

I'd consider it a very good thing: See X2 for what it looks like when Egosoft does that.

[Samuel Creshal]

So as you see FL universe is surrounded with colorful dust clouds which allowed the devs to make every system visibly different color, if Egosoft did that with its universe, added nebulas, dust clouds and colorful background would you consider it good or bad thing?

According to the books the universe actually is supposed to have a very noticeable nebula in one area, it's just harder to notice, since the position on the gate map has no connection to the actual location in the universe (neighboring sectors can be in different galaxies!), and said nebula is therefore visible in completely random sectors.

[Moonrat]

So as you see FL universe is surrounded with colorful dust clouds which allowed the devs to make every system visibly different color, if Egosoft did that with its universe, added nebulas, dust clouds and colorful background would you consider it good or bad thing?

According to the books the universe actually is supposed to have a very noticeable nebula in one area, it's just harder to notice, since the position on the gate map has no connection to the actual location in the universe (neighboring sectors can be in different galaxies!), and said nebula is therefore visible in completely random sectors.

I've tried to bring order to the chaos a little with IEX, and although it's getting there (?), until I can create yet more new backgounds I'd be the first to state it's not perfect. I've strived to introduce a greater continuity of nebula space etc. within IEX (and now XRM) compared to the vanilla map and objects/nebulas types/colours viewed far off when travelling thru' the gate for instance should now make more sense when you arrive there. Various parts of the map are also more consistent, with a reduction of random nebula types appearing from one sector to the next... I'd rather assumed that some sectors where physically close to each other space (like the Solar System) whereas other jump distances to new areas of space might be much greater.

[StarSword]

In actual fact nebulae only look like colorful clouds from far away. The matter density in them isn't nearly high enough to produce any noticeable fog.

But I file it under Acceptable Breaks from Reality. If they went for realism here every sector background would look exactly the same.

[DarkTemplar]

In actual fact nebulae only look like colorful clouds from far away. The matter density in them isn't nearly high enough to produce any noticeable fog.

But I file it under Acceptable Breaks from Reality. If they went for realism here every sector background would look exactly the same.

I agree. Personally I think it would help the X-Universe to feel less "empty". Of course it wouldn't be all that realistic but a game doesn't really has to be realistic in the first place.

Personally I don't have a problem with having loads of colors of done properly and they actually fit the setting. Having huge gas/dust clouds, suns coloring systems in different colors and stuff like that could help add to the ambiente.