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StarSchulz

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Station Illustrations
« on: September 21, 2017, 10:41:56 PM »

I was thinking about how the increasing amount of ships and other such sprites/images in the game increase the requirement of V-Ram, and would make it harder to bring in more of the really nice images that sort of identify each important dock. Docking at Jangala station is of the most easily recognizable ones that i can remember, and i wish every station and planet could have its own. With Starsector preloading all assets to avoid any loading screens, it means you couldn't add too many.

So i ask, would it at all be possible for the game to load in those images when you dock, with an effect like it was being loaded in on your Tri-Pad? Preferrably it would load in seamlessly and you could just as easily go do what you intended to do when you docked. Is that possible/worth the dev time at all?