No more massive planetary rings?

I've been playing since beta 1 and I have really gotten found of this game. I mostly do bounty hunting, probably since the flight mecanics in the game are amazing.
Anyways, back in the second beta I was fighting a lot in the planetary ring around Nang Ta-khian 3 (close to Eranin). Once you locked on the Resource Extraction Point and hit the frame shift buttond you warp deep inside an endless asteroid belt. The first time I went here my jaw dropped a bit, and then I had a really hard time finding the way out. Haha. I think I used 5 minutes untill I was out. I couldn't see the end at any point, but it looked really epic. I really wish I saved a few screenshots of this place.
Today I went back to this planet to check it out, but I when i got there I realised there has been some changes since the last time I was there. It seems that the planetary rings have been limited in thinkness. I even went to XI Ursae Majoris AB 2, which has an insanely huge ring around it, and even this ring is think like a leaf.

For reference, since I have no sceenshots from them, I'll add a video here from Bolg 7 in beta 2. I personally never went to this place, but it's the same deal. Really thick rings.
[video=youtube;E5FrNAGBJGA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5FrNAGBJGA[/video]

I wonder if I've just missed out on these rings in the released version of the game or have they really just been removed?
 
I was going to mention Bolg 7, but I see you posted the video.

I was planning on a trip back there, because those rings were seriously impressive. I do hope those types of rings are still in the game, even if they are now in different locations...
 
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Can anyone confirm that there are still those massive planetary rings around as shown in the video?

I've been checking on quite a few now and they're all very thin.

I can't find the ring system "Bolg", too. Well, I can find it, but there is no planet #7.
 
Can anyone confirm that there are still those massive planetary rings around as shown in the video?

I've been checking on quite a few now and they're all very thin.

I can't find the ring system "Bolg", too. Well, I can find it, but there is no planet #7.

I really have no clue. And I really want to know too. But it seems the devs have other things to worry about now that the game is coming out to xbox and all... no time to answer backers anymore.
 
Pretty sure they nerfed the rings towards the end of Beta because of too many reports of stuttering and other issues - around the same time they tuned down LOD for planets in supercruise (though they appear to have turned that back up a bit in 1.2).
 
a nerf of asteroid belts to go along with the nerf of LOD and pop in (that happened between beta and release), can anyone say XBOX?
 
Would these be the inifinite asteroid rings that people kept whining they couldn't find their way out again?
 
I got stung last night by a ringed gas giant - I wanted to get some nice screenshots, and there was a strongly defined ring in close by the planet. I wanted to fly up and around the ring to get to the "top", as that was the direction the local star was shining...then BOOM - emergency drop out of SC.

Yeah - the ring was so light and transparent further out that I didn't even see it extending 1.5 Ly out from the planet. Ow!

Luckily only 1% hull lost, and a couple of percent on my modules...

-- Pete.
 

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I vividly remember getting horrible performance drops in such dense Fields.

While they looked really nice - having these i.e. at a RES and tons of combat added to it, left such areas basically unplayable to me (FX-6300, 8GB w/ R9 290).
Even mining in them was extremely painful, sometimes felt like there was something accumulating that further degraded performance over time (missing garbage collection, memory leak or something).
 
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