Will we see space-based weather phenomena in the future, stuff like solar flares causing EM storms, or rogue asteroids and comets spreading debris fields?
TL;DRYes, space weather like meteor storms is wanted and cloud tech is progressing, but how it will play is unknown and optimizations are still needed before it can run in the PU.
Yes. For example, the cloud stuff that the graphics team is working on: there's a lot of interesting things that we can do with that. And then there's also the weather stuff that Carsten's working on. I don't know how those things are going to play just yet, but what I do know is I want to be able to tie systems into those and make sure that they affect your ship or they affect you as a player somehow. And then obviously with the meteor storms or those types of things, those are aspects that we do want to get in. I think the cloud tech is probably closer, and so then that might lead to nebulas or space clouds or... I don't know what we can do with it yet. And so once Ali finishes the code, or those guys finish the code, then I think there's some optimizations that still need to happen in order for us to be able to run it in the PU, and then we can start having fun.