I'd hoped they'd have fixed this...
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Yeah, damn astronomy surveys! Down with real data!
When I first came across things like this I thought "wow what is it?" and headed over to explore.
Nothing needs fixing, they are just points of interest in an otherwise sea of of stars.
Nothing needs fixing, they are just points of interest in an otherwise sea of of stars.
It's not accurate, at least according to some sources. It would appear that it is only correct from one angle - when viewed from Earth.
what exactly do you want them to fix? the reality of the universe and what is currently known?
is your source mystic meg?
Really? I can't find it any current star catalog, at least not the way that the Stellar Forge renders it.
This just reminds me of a scene in family guy.
Stewie is stuck on the roof, Brian sees him and ask him was he was doing.
"I'm counting the stars in Orion's.... something something"
Tensions are running a little high here on the forum...
The humour wasn't obvious
It's a similar issue to the skybox squares seen nearer to the core. Very bright stars reveal imperfections in the way stellar forge was implemented. Repositioning the stars (or blending them better in the case of the squares) would be ideal, but fiddling with the apparent brightness of the stars when they are applied to the skybox would be asking a lot too.
The skybox is one of the really excellent things about the game, up there with stellar forge & the flight model. It doesn't have to be perfect & in trying to improve it further it might just make some other aspect of it worse imo.
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As has been mentioned many times before, and as I'm sure the OP is aware... things like this cannot be "fixed" without deleting the galaxy and replacing it with another that looks almost, but not quite, the same. The way the Stellar Forge is designed, hand-placed stars (such as these) define how the rest of the procedurally-generated galaxy looks. So, real-world stars in the "wrong place", stars that are too heavy or too light, and stars that are missing altogether, cannot be simply changed. You're stuck with them, for the duration of the game.
I have a secret for you. A lot of stars in elite are procedurally generated. But some aren't, and comes from real star catalogue. They follow a line due to how they were observed, you know, from Earth, with a telescope.
They could have fixed that by having more stars around the "real" stars, to make it dense but not "line" of stars. Or just move them slightly around.
Fun fact, elite dangerous is a videogame. It's not actually reality. I know, it's weird.
LIES! BLASPHEMY!
I didn't want to believe it either. But I've been at the limit of my screen. I have seen the Great Beyond that lies beyond the edge of my desk. The Elite universe is not real.
Then I came back because it's twisted.
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This will never be fixed.
Wait wait wait...you're telling me the cool spaceship stuff I do isn't real, but the stuff where I work a dead-end job on a single planet we're slowly killing IS!?
0.o