Hi there. I am CCP Mannapi from the TriLambda team, aka the space art people. We are working on the new nebulas, with the goal of adding a sense of direction and location to the world of Eve.

When looking at the flattened star map you have the concept of north, south, west and east. To see which direction you are facing you can open the mini map (F11) and look at the cone of vision. With the new nebulas you can be to the east of, let’s say, the cloud ring phenomenon and look west, and see the cloud ring nebula. 

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We are not colluding with your internet service provider

As some of you may know already, we have plans to update the nebulae backgrounds of EVE with more modern graphics. The goal behind updating these graphics, as so often, is not to do it simply for the sake of updating graphics and having you download new textures because we are secretly working with your pay-per-megabyte ISP, but instead to deepen the immersion, in this case to make the world more real and give people a better sense of scale and location in the universe. They are inspired by real world imagery but they are all computer generated, painstakingly rendered using state of the art hardware and software.

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