[Jump]

If there are no suns that the planets orbit around in Jumpgate Evolution I will be disappointed. That is one of the goofy things that you had to force your brain to overcome in Jumpgate TRI. So please, let there be light.

[Elmdor]

And let there be more sectors that look like pulsar. The rest of space is so boring looking.

[Jump]

From the shots we have seen I think they will all be looking better than Pulsar.

[Tritian]

yeah WTF was up w/ the no suns.... you'd just see a blue/green planet out there floating around w/ a perfectly suitable ecosystem for life and no star near it.

[Jump]

If fact they could have gates at multiple planets in a system as well as an asteroid belt for mining.

[Jump]

If fact they could have gates at multiple planets in a system as well as an asteroid belt for mining.

[Lordopic]

I like the idea of multi gates in one sector, like a motorway junction, lots of traffic heading through.

In fact why do we only have one planet in a sector, let alone no sun, one thing Eve has got right is the solar systems, various sun types and mutable planets with moons.

[vorlon31]

motorway junction sector.. sweet.

watches thread with great interest.

[Chemdog]

Just for everyone's general knowledge, there are quite a few instances of planets floating through space not attached to a star. In fact, considering the Jumpgate universe is a post-Great Collapse era, I would expect that to be the case. Universes crossing paths, ripping solar systems apart. Gravity fluctuations from multiple stars in proximity sending outer planets into extra-solar orbits.

We are flying in a futuristic space universe and you guys are focused on the fact that planets aren't circling stars?

[Jump]

Right, and they have sunlit surfaces and life on them. No, we are not living in the dark ages here, we know the survival possibilities of a rogue planet. We want suns so we can work on our tans.

Actually, wasn't there a sun in one of the screen shots that are out there?
Which reminds me, I need to set up the gallery to hold them.

[Jump]

The more I think about it the more I think it would be cool if the gates you saw on the map merely took you to the outer reaches of a solar system. Once you have Jumped you could have a sub map for that system and system gates to move within the system. This could take you to various stations and asteroid belts.

This would definitely be a major change but it would add a lot of depth and a more comfortable feel to the average person that plays space sims.