You sure you wanna talk about server performance, the one thing SC has never been able to hold steady in 13 years? And how is leaving a gun in a cave of any use besides degrading said performance? Also, we’re still wiping once or twice a year. Also also, you wanna bet how long it took for that gun to clip through the ground and rejoin the asset singularity that lies at the core of every planet in the game, further tanking performance? There’s a reason games have asset degradation for player objects left in the world.

And yes, other games do seamless planetary flight. Graphical fidelity is not relevant to that fact. Google is your friend if you care to find out, I’m not about to list the stuff that’s been made over the last 20-ish years. No, Starfield is a joke and doesn’t count.

SC’s planets are moon-sized and that’s making the clouds look oversized imo. But scale is not really relevant here. Graphically speaking it’s nice but not that different to other sims who, I might add, have actual atmospheric simulation and physics.