Currently, the NPC capital ships tend to vanish into thin air when they jump away. Are there any plans to make quantum travel effects on large ships massively more visible to players?

Yes. Yeah, so basically at the moment it looks like they're kind of vanishing because they do accelerate very quickly, but also it's the server as well, so it's that time in that initial phase where they accelerate. But we do plan to communicate more the spooling phase and reduce that initial acceleration, so you can visually see them go out and you can see the lines come off the ship as it accelerates. That's definitely something we're going to work on, because it does look a bit strange at the moment sometimes when it's not communicated, and suddenly the ship just vanishes.

I can confirm they do actually quantum travel. That's how sometimes you find them ending up at the wreck site or some random rest stop when they shouldn't. But yeah, when we got that in, we were a little disappointed to see that that's how it looks. I kind of expected some kind of effect on the spool that would signal that. But I mean, if you squint, you can see that there's a few frames of movement before it vanishes.