I haven't messed with the sky for the same reason I haven't messed with environment, inappropriate planes and all that other eye candy. If you're fighting your sub, you aren't caring too much about the water color/transparency/floaty stuff or counting stars or wondering why that Zero is dropping bombs. You're submerged, avoiding these things.
Suppose we added a couple hundred stars to that field of view. That would still be less than half the stars in my photo and what would be the cost in game lag?
"You CAN'T press that button, I have to compute positions for 500 stars every five seconds." I think the cost wouldn't be worth the gain.
Maybe the next generation of computers will be good enough. Then the limiting factor will be the drink coaster model of game production. Game companies get one blast of income from a game and it's all over. We might play the game for ten years, but they're outta there in six months.
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