So, what with the occasional storm visual effect showing up in WH & station sectors where there isn't really a storm, I've been wondering why "real" Ion Storms don't occur in those sectors. As I understand it, Ion Storms are a natural effect resulting from the interaction between wormholes & physical objects (asteroids). I have yet to hear a pseudo-science explanation for why they don't happen in WH & Station sectors.

What is more, from a gameplay perspective, I think it would be better if storms did occur in WH & Station sectors, for a few reasons. Most importantly, I think it would allow for a gentler introduction to storms for new players: I'd much rather have figured out how storms work & how to get out of them, BEFORE having to do it with an ApuTech-5 on the back of my EC-88.

Anyway, I'm curious what other players think about it.

I have some screen shots of ion storms in WH sectors. If you want I could post them.

Actually, yeah. That was one of my less important reasons for wanting this: I think an Ion Storm around a Station would look totally awesome.

Was it a real storm, or just the visual effect, Borb?

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I've seen the particules in a station sector before, but I could still jump out anywhere. I'm all for this!!

It'd be sorta cool, I guess, except for the fact that I'm assembling a complete set of anywhere-to-anywhere navroutes just so I DON'T ever have to hit a storm...

Heh. That will still be possible, thurisaz, but you may need to redo a few.

...except that wormhole sectors aren't exactly something you can steer around :O

::edit- open mouth, insert foot :O

Only if you're going through that WH, so you'd have to come out of jump anyway. A storm in that WH sector wouldn't change a whole lot. If you're not going through the WH, then there's no reason you can't steer around that sector.

For now, lets say WH's naturally eat ions, and stations have anti-ion storm devices. I would like station storms be a possibility, but only if we have modular/destructable stations, the anti-ion device being one of those, and player built stations must build them.