How about making the asteoids more exciting - giving them channels, holes - area's to fly through. Mining in the middle of an asteroid could reap better ores etc. Surprises in some of the deep cavernous aseroids. Kinda based on the Millenium Falcon scenes in Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back.

Believe it or not, there are many asteroids that do have holes in them that you can fly through. Of course, they are not all that common. There is even a station built inside of a huge asteroid in Verasi. It's pretty cool. I recommend you check it out

Yeah, that entire sector is beautiful.

An hour after posting I found the station in the asteroid :-) I'd like to see some of the giant asteroids having missions attached to them. Some sort of base with in/on the asteroid - good to have to fly around targetting guns etc - flying through caverns. Even landing to save civilians!

most of the big weird looking asteroids that you can fly through tend to have interesting minerals inside of the or close to them. but these big blob asteroids and clusters are usually at the 'end' of a long string of asteroids within a sector, probably 3-10km away from where you warp in.

furthermore, if you are being chased by a bunch of bots and you manage to slip your ship inbetween a 30m wide crack in a huge asteroid, and watch the bots get confused, it is kind of a thrill.

i really like this sort of thing, and would love some 'small moons' although i realize that 1. most people want other features first, 2. it might require some heavy work to maintain the good framerates we currently see, and most importantly 3. id rather see them improve the user interface.

They used to have race tracks at some point in the beta, and I'm sure they will be resurfacing at some point. I'm sure they'd give you a good fix for some fun flying. I hope it's a high priority on the dev's todo list.