I honestly think it’s a terrible idea to have the earth as your home screen/location selector, it would be far better if it was a non realistic looking earth, or a flat map, because then once you actually entered the game/world that will be your first experience/time of getting in to the world instead of entering from high up away from earth where you have to endure this graphically poor animation showing you how bad clouds look on this game from that high up when its completely unnecessary to do that in the first place we are flying on earth not space, all this homescreen earth does it kill all immersion in relation to what you are going to expect when you get in. It’s way to overdone and honestly it’s just silly, why do we need to fly in from space like that to enter the world?. A simple 2d map with names of places, would be FAR FAR FAR more pleasant then the present way of entering the world/choosing where you want to fly.
Imagine a simple 2d map, then you enter the world and be blown away instead of getting false first impressions of what it may or may not look like when u get there from space.