I'm not effected by the neurological issues mentioned in this post; however the flickering effect between tabs doesn't add anything to the game for me; except possibly being ever so slightly bothersome visually. Maybe the fuzzy static does something really useful that i haven't thought of. If it doesn't add anything though, and if it is harmful to some people, perhaps it can be gotten rid of?
The explosion effect, while theoretically cool, is in practice 9/10 times annoying, since usually after you blow up a big enemy ship the first thing you do is switch to the map and try to find your next target. But the explosion effect washes out the map screen too (incidentally this always breaks immersion for me since I realize it's only washing out the map because of some limitation of video cards), so you've got to wait until it's over before you can look at the map. This is more than slightly bothersome.
