Okay Frontier. You can actually get rid of most of the dust.

[FoxFire Ayderan]

I had been thinking that the view in space does not seem to have as many stars in it as I would expect. Being new, I'm in the vicinity of Sol, and the starter system. In fact you can see more stars from Earth on a dark moonless night if you're out in the middle of nowhere away from all lights of civilization. And from what I understand, if you're in space you can see way more stars than you can from the surface of the Earth, as there is no atmosphere blocking out the fainter stars.

I was listening to an old podcast (or was it a YouTube video) in which some Frontier developer was discussing the fact that the skybox actually shows the stars which are around you based on your current position in space. And then they mentioned that they needed to add a lot of dust, far more dust than actually exists in space in order to block out some of the stars and make the sky look more like what people are used to.

BUT...most people on the planet are not 'used to' seeing the starry 'sky' from outer space. So... if Frontier was attempting to make the sky look more like what we are familiar with on earth, with our relatively thick atmosphere (quite thick compared to the barren rocks with no atmosphere we land on, and from deep space), then they screwed up. Because we ought to be seeing the stars in space as we would from being in space, outside Earth's atmosphere.

At any rate, now that I know they had to add more dust to get a sky that they thought looked right (based on views from Earth presumably), it bothers me that it's there, and I see all this dust looking at the stars of the galaxy from my ship.

I would suggest that they reconsider the view as it would be from outer space and perhaps remove a fair amount of the dust they deemed necessary to add so that we would see far more stars than we do now.

 

[MBaldelli]

I had been thinking that the view in space does not seem to have as many stars in it as I would expect. Being new, I'm in the vicinity of Sol, and the starter system. In fact you can see more stars from Earth on a dark moonless night if you're out in the middle of nowhere away from all lights of civilization. And from what I understand, if you're in space you can see way more stars than you can from the surface of the Earth, as there is no atmosphere blocking out the fainter stars.

When you're ready, head toward Sag-A. You'll see so many stars you'll quickly get your fill of the ceiling being stuffed to the brim with them. Then head toward a dark sector and you'll appreciate what you'll see even from the starter systems.

As it stands though, yeah. People generally aren't used to seeing that many stars at a time either because of the light pollution or the atmospheric distortion. It's a nice suggestion and the first I've actually seen on this since I've been here. I don't get the impression they're going to change this though.

Personally I would prefer if we could get rid of the scratching on the cockpit "glass" as it seems to be particularly immersion breaking when I've paid my dues (credits) to getting my ship completely repaired and the "glass" still looks like crap.