I was just reading the 'Ocean EV' topic, when I hd an idea. Would it be possible to create an illusion of a different background using sprite graphics?
Let me explain myself, I had too ways of doing this. The first, would be to create a ship that had no acceleration, movement or turning speed, and set them to appear in every system. Their sprite set would be a gigantic background picture (big enough to fill the whole system) of anything you want. If you wanted ocean EV, you would make a massive occean pic that would fill the whole system, and paste it as the ships sprites. The only problem with this is that it would appear in the sensors, and I can't think of a way to work around this. For more advanced backgrounds, you could have the ship turn slowly to give the effect of rippling waves. 
My other idea is a varient of the above. What about a spöb that had the backgorund picture as it's sprite? The only problem for this is that it would show up in the navigation box. There's also the problem of file size and memory. If the sprite was fairly simple, would the ammount of RAM required be too high for even the G3/4 users? Would the file be too big to download?
I had another thought, would the normal ships appear on top of the background ship, or would they just seem to be invisible hidden under the ship?
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Oh, I'm sorry. Did that break your concentration?
I didn't mean to do that.
Please, continue.
I believe you were saying something about "best intentions."
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