One of the things about this game that gets me is that this game contains some absolutely majestic sights, yet explorers are the only ones that can get to see them up close.
A few months ago I started a thread called "Pleiades Colonization!". I may have been a bit overzealous in that thread, but I suggested that FD created community goals to create Coriolis/Ocellus stations out in the systems Maia, Merope and Pleiades Sector (I forget)-(I forget). I even PM'd Ed Lewis, and I received no responses at all. Perhaps they were very busy at that time and never saw the post or saw the PM, and nothing has been said yet, but I hope they've had plans for this to happen at some point.
It's such a beautifully crafted galaxy, and we're in a bubble with very little in it except for K/G/M stars and your average black nothingness. Why not expand! Just a few systems, even with simple outposts only, that allow other professions than explorers to take part in experiencing that rich setting. The Pleiades even has dozens of pristine-metallic rings and belts, especially the Merope systems, all waiting to be tapped!
Here is a Pleiades screenshot archive, from my trip there. You can see all of the wonderful locations, and Merope's galaxy map doesn't give you a sense of how eerie it is, how spine-tingly. It's gorgeous.
Please, FD, consider this!
A few months ago I started a thread called "Pleiades Colonization!". I may have been a bit overzealous in that thread, but I suggested that FD created community goals to create Coriolis/Ocellus stations out in the systems Maia, Merope and Pleiades Sector (I forget)-(I forget). I even PM'd Ed Lewis, and I received no responses at all. Perhaps they were very busy at that time and never saw the post or saw the PM, and nothing has been said yet, but I hope they've had plans for this to happen at some point.
It's such a beautifully crafted galaxy, and we're in a bubble with very little in it except for K/G/M stars and your average black nothingness. Why not expand! Just a few systems, even with simple outposts only, that allow other professions than explorers to take part in experiencing that rich setting. The Pleiades even has dozens of pristine-metallic rings and belts, especially the Merope systems, all waiting to be tapped!
Here is a Pleiades screenshot archive, from my trip there. You can see all of the wonderful locations, and Merope's galaxy map doesn't give you a sense of how eerie it is, how spine-tingly. It's gorgeous.
Please, FD, consider this!