Oh. I didn't know they were using the same map. Though I guess it makes sense considering I fell through the solar system on Tribble the other night.

It's a gutted version tweaked in a few places but, mostly yeah.

LOL, I never said the intensity of real stars.

Just make them bright spots in space with the occasional lense flare. Which is more convincing than the astrometric-type plasma balls.

That is actually doable. The Dev Team can do something like what they did with the first part of Khitomer Accords.

I had wondered why the Earth doesn't appear to rotate in Sol Sector? Then I realized ESD is in geosynchronous orbit of Earth (specifically San Francisco). Both would have to move together to express that. It's just more practical that both sit still for all the player's who pass through.

This is really what you would see from Earth's perspective:

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/a.../tuchd0270.jpg

I think that the interior for the new ESD will occur within the sphere. Beside the shuttlecraft in that picture.

From the inside looking out, the current ESD is in geosynchronous orbit over the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

If you look OUT OF the windows, you see the East Coast (from Florida up past Cape Cod and then up to Greenland) off to your left and the West Coasts of Spain and Africa to your right.

It's only from the outside that it looks like it's over San Francisco.

In the game I see what you mean. Assuming we get the re-mapped Sol Sector later (once we have ESD itself), I'm hoping we eventually will see what Cuatella and Leviathan are suggesting.

I wouldn't mind seeing the model of Earth replaced entirely. It needs to be larger and display an atmosphere like some of the planets seen in the exploration clusters.