Space seems to be a bit too opaque, for instance it was a little hard to tell whether Jim had exited the atmosphere or not because the color of local space was the same as the planet's sky. I love the idea of colorful space -- makes the game more like the sci-fi book cover they want it to be -- but it seems to be a little too colorful.
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I'm wondering if that could just be the limits of hardware? When you exit or enter a planet it does a cube <---> sphere conversion (or something like it, there was a video on it a while back), could just be the LoD having a bit of trouble catching up. I guess that shape conversion could be a lobby of sorts, the planet you land on isn't necessarily the same planet you were looking at.