[jc173]

BTW even if you set it for 255, you will probably only get about 200-225 systems because of the way they are placed by the game engine. You can increase your chances of having more systems by changing the setting for min distance between systems from 1 to 0. I think it's in quadrant.txt. Decreasing the min warp point angle and increase the max number of warp points per system may help with that too, but I found it really hard to defend a border of an empire when I did this.