Particle effects, and why they wouldn’t slow the game

First of all, this is an amazing game. It’s really fun with great graphics. But you could make it so much more with just one simple addition: particle effects. And no, it’s not as bad as it might sound. Yeah, sometimes particle effects take a large amount of ram and make tons of lag. But if you made them into one single model, most of it being transparent, with the particles thrown in, we could have sandstorms in deserts. Grass thrown up by wheels. Dust, produced by rocket engines. It could even power other ideas like my suggestion for weather, made that much easier.