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BEZ_BASHNI wrote: 4. 'Astronomically correct sky' -the player can look at the sky view at any solar system, choose the star and fly to it (in case the universe is randomly generated , the sky textures will be rendered according the universe model and solarsystem viewpoint.

This would be interesting, for me at least. I have done some testing and it is possible to put in a few SPEC drives that can travel at a few million times the speed of light, though it does cause overshoot some of the time. Imagaine being stuck in the intial sector till you can buy an inter-solarsystem SPEC drive. Could be an idea for the MMO. But this would require extremely large values for locations, in the order of 9x10^15 meters, not sure what it would do to the preformace of the game/server.

With the new SPEC drives i'm working on, it might also mean that it is impossible for a light fighter to travel from one solar system to another. You would need a larger ship, or to land on a larger one and get flown over, which could be considered realistic, but will affect the gameplay.

If the whole render backgrounds from universe data works it could be very fun. Remember, no jump drives would be a per mod thing as it does not necessitate a lack of jumps. Quite the opposite it makes for new options: buy the jump drive and quickly go from system to system or the IS-SPEC and go from anywhere to anywhere. You could do both, but that would take up twice the space.

Practically, non-jump interstellar travel requires shard-space based physics, with one hierarchy level above star systems.
Of course, any hyperspace-using (B5, Star Control 2, etc) mod requires (and Elite Witchspace suggests) much the same.