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Thread: Disable Nebula Button
For me its three issues:
1) None of the Star Wars movies, even the 3 most recent, have Nebula in them AT ALL. If there is even a hint of a Nebula in the 3 most recent its such an un-noticeable streak in the distance thats its not noticeable
2) Its too much. Lok looks good with one blured streak of blue Nebula, but to have nebula in EVERY sector? Its just graphicaly too much
3) It really is the biggest form of lag, especialy Kashyyyk that is praticaly unplayable on my machine because the entire system is one big red nebula
I really would just like to turn it all off
RpTheHotrod wrote:
I like them there, honestly. Makes space seem less....boring.However, they really gotta find a way to reduce the lag. The lightning is also just annoying.I wouldn't mind some tactics being thrown in there, though. Some games I have played, some areas like that cause radar to malfuction...and you either cannot get a solid reading of ships in it (the blip dances around a lot), or no reading of anything at all. Would be a good place to "hide" to get away for you smugglers, or perhaps an ambush point for you piratesNormally you can use radar to feel completely safe and know exactly what's there....however, in that game I played...you really never knew what was in there unless you went in, yourself...was kind of creepy.
Message Edited by RpTheHotrod on 06-19-2005 12:42 PM
Hate to break it to you mate, but that's what space is, emptiness...
Balzan wrote:
RpTheHotrod wrote:
I like them there, honestly. Makes space seem less....boring.
However, they really gotta find a way to reduce the lag. The lightning is also just annoying.
I wouldn't mind some tactics being thrown in there, though. Some games I have played, some areas like that cause radar to malfuction...and you either cannot get a solid reading of ships in it (the blip dances around a lot), or no reading of anything at all. Would be a good place to "hide" to get away for you smugglers, or perhaps an ambush point for you pirates
Normally you can use radar to feel completely safe and know exactly what's there....however, in that game I played...you really never knew what was in there unless you went in, yourself...was kind of creepy.
Message Edited by RpTheHotrod on 06-19-2005 12:42 PM
Hate to break it to you mate, but that's what space is, emptiness...
Hence the name, space.
One Nebula? Ok. Maybe 2 systems each with 1 Nebula? I can accept that. But Nebula in ALL sectors except deep space? Some systems even have over 4 of them... its too much.
It always bugged me how much stuff they've packed into each of the 10 sectors. Space is called "Space" for a reason and although they say "its adding content" I would much rather have competly empty systems with 1 space station that holds quests and "content" than not being able to fly 2km without running into an aggro spawn.
Why are Witches flying around the Dathomir system? The entire system is undergoing an Imperial blockade. The ONLY ships you should see there are Imperial.
Why are Rebels and other factions in Endor? The System was supposed to be remote and void of activity save for the Forest Moon. The Empire also has the entire system under a secure lockdown ... no ships can enter or leave without getting scanned and/or shot to pieces by Imperial patrols.
In my mind, all static spawns EXCEPT for spawns in the Tatoo, Corellia, Kessel, DeepSpaceand Naboo systems should be removed from space. Instead, Dathomir, Yavin etc should only have Imperial ships flying around with maybe 1 or 2 Black Sun spawns here an there. Point is, space should be "spaced"
But thats not the subject here. The subject is Nebula ... and there should be a button to completly turn them off and another button to just turn off the lightening bolt. That way, players can chose to have them or not which is far better than not having the choice at all 
Message Edited by RpTheHotrod on 06-19-2005 12:42 PM
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And we've seen almost all of these systems in the movies, not a single nebula in any of them.
... and my astronomy is a little rusty, but I think that it would be almost impossible for a planet that's capable of supporting life to exist in a nebula......
TomedNor wrote:
I'll agree with you. Nebula's look cool, but all they do is create lag, even with that density slider all the way down.
And we've seen almost all of these systems in the movies, not a single nebula in any of them.
... and my astronomy is a little rusty, but I think that it would be almost impossible for a planet that's capable of supporting life to exist in a nebula......