As something of a community contribution/something I'd like to package to the devs on behalf of the official groups within Bering, the system is likely going to become a warzone one formal raids can be organised in September. However, it's extremely boring, both visually, audiably, and from a gameplay perspective, a problem that only recently got better with the last few updates.


I'm currently working on a new Bering appropriate for the types of activity expected to occur in it. The idea is to keep all the basic elements of what makes Bering work (the same trade lanes, station positions, etc), whilst adding in a few minor environmental dangers (such as increasing the travel distance between Pacifica and Marshal with hazards along the way, so that the general good-health distance for combat between hostile bases: 50k, is observed), along with some general visual colour extracted from real world astronomy. As I don't feel qualified to mess around with major gameplay loops like mining zone or station locations, they'll stay as they are.

Content to be added includes: Various different non-planetary solars, different sized asteroids, dust fields (to mimic the real-world astronomical effect of the thermal degradation of asteroids as they approach a star), a rather deadly, but easy to go above/below/to-the-side-of minefield, a load of new infocards, updating old infocards, a Pacifica remodel, a few nearly harmless flavour radiation zones, including one near the gate, implying that the gate is degrading over time, more wrecks, a tilted dust ring around the star, adding more verticality to the system, swapping out the asteroid ambient music for the tanner Belt with a jazzier track, a few other random doodads I'll think of as I go along, upgrading the bar rumours on Freeport 2 and Pacifica to reflect current storyline events.


Intention is to submit the completed system, prettified to the level of a Discovery system, at some point in the near future, whilst still preserving suspense of disbelief that this is the same Bering it's always been. Will keep the thread updated as my progress develops.


Everyone is allowed to give some visual advice, and I'd happily take Separatist/Junker input too.