[Herra Tohtori]

That's called an aurora, mate.

I know what an aurora is. I see them all the time, their boring, mostly green (sometimes other colors), and uninspiring. When i meant clear sky, i meant a clear sky and seeing something that was much beyond the atmosphere.

Truly your depth perception is beyond human capabilities.

You do know there's no way in heaven or hell to know how far a static atmospheric phenomenon is unless you triangulate it using parallax in the order of kilometres? If the green aurora stayed static, you couldn't have known how far it was.

[Kolgena]

Doesn't depth perception (not from parallax cues) for a human fail somewhere around the 10m mark? After that, it's all potentially erroneous judgments based on relative size or other learned signals.

I remember being on a glacier, and looking at a side of a mountain. It looked like something you could jog to without much trouble, but the tour guide said it was actually something like 6km away.

[Unknown Target]

If you wanted realistic (WHY does everyone insist upon this?), you would be fighting in most likely nothing but inky blackness, especially in the areas between systems; it would be totally black, there would be no light except via artificial sources.

[Kolgena]

Realism?

You'd be piloting off computer screens. Visual information through glass is nigh useless. Oh, and subluminal lasers

[Herra Tohtori]

subluminal lasers

wat

[Wobble73]

subluminal lasers

wat

I assume he means sub luminescent lasers. Lasers that are not within visual range.

[redsniper]

but... we are piloting off a computer screen...

[General Battuta]

subluminal lasers

wat

I assume he means sub luminescent lasers. Lasers that are not within visual range.

No, he doesn't. He's making fun of FreeSpace's subluminal lasers, lasers that don't move at lightspeed.

[Kolgena]

subluminal lasers

wat

I assume he means sub luminescent lasers. Lasers that are not within visual range.

No, he doesn't. He's making fun of FreeSpace's subluminal lasers, lasers that don't move at lightspeed.

He got what I meant. I guess I was more vague than I meant to be on the irony.

[Aardwolf]

Subluminal Lasers FTW.

[High Max]

#.#

[Kolgena]

You see, there is no game if your fighter isn't controlled by you. That, and trying to dogfight at 8.3km/s is kinda... stupid?

[High Max]

#.#

[Kolgena]

Yup. Seems we're on the same wagon of "Fun >> Realism"

[spzattk]

Aye, the sky doesn't look like that to human eyes.

If you go to TRUELY dark skies when there is no moon out and completly clear weather, the sky looks far more impressive than that.
Here's a map of light pollution in the US. If you havn't seen the sky from at least the grey areas...you haven't seen dark skies .
http://doubleyoutube.info/OAC/Light_Pollution_Road_America-USA-Del.gif
Nebulosity, to the naked eye, appears grey, without color, although some bright nebula in a telescope might appear slightly green/red.

I think that a sky background that was accurate to what would actually be seen in space would be far more beautiful than the current star backgrounds. However, when I'm playing this game I'm trying to shoot things, not just look at a pretty view. So, having lots of colorful nebula can make it a lot easier to see the ships against the sky. Still, I'd love to see accurate backgrounds and would prefer them over the current ones (although the current ones aren't  too bad).

[General Battuta]

Aye, the sky doesn't look like that to human eyes.

If you go to TRUELY dark skies when there is no moon out and completly clear weather, the sky looks far more impressive than that.
Here's a map of light pollution in the US. If you havn't seen the sky from at least the grey areas...you haven't seen dark skies .
http://doubleyoutube.info/OAC/Light_Pollution_Road_America-USA-Del.gif
Nebulosity, to the naked eye, appears grey, without color, although some bright nebula in a telescope might appear slightly green/red.

I think that a sky background that was accurate to what would actually be seen in space would be far more beautiful than the current star backgrounds. However, when I'm playing this game I'm trying to shoot things, not just look at a pretty view. So, having lots of colorful nebula can make it a lot easier to see the ships against the sky. Still, I'd love to see accurate backgrounds and would prefer them over the current ones (although the current ones aren't  too bad).

The first few missions of Blue Planet have a 'realistic' Sol skybox background, if you want to check it out.

As for your 'truly dark skies' comment, thanks for the map, good stuff. Apparently light pollution these days is bad enough that even in Antarctica you can't see what would have been visible in ancient Rome.

[Kosh]

If you wanted realistic (WHY does everyone insist upon this?), you would be fighting in most likely nothing but inky blackness, especially in the areas between systems; it would be totally black, there would be no light except via artificial sources.

I'm not insisting on it, I was just curious.