Adding 3D planets and small moons with gravity that could pull in ships that travel too close would be an great touch to the already fantastic game.

It would just take MUCH more time to do, seeing as there are so many planets already.

Mabie the Elite fans would be disappointed about this. Though they expect to land or fly on the planets atmosphere or making just another space trading type game have much more realistic phsyics along with gravity and orbiting as such..

Don't forget people will complain about planets not oribting the sun or so.

The size of the planets or moons would just be way to enormous to fly around in this game. Gravity the devs could easily add in... but having an object the size of earths moon (diameter 3,476,200m) would be completely unplayable. Vendetta only draws things that are less than 60,000m away from you, and that's really far more than is necessary for the current game.

If the engine (as it currently stands) tried to render an entire moon it would probably get around 1fps for the fastest of machines we've got playing.

Maybe we can have some systems with one VERY large asteroid and a few tiny ones. Make it look like a small moon... or something.