Star survey reaches 70 sextillion

atari_eric · #1 July 24th, 2003, 11:50 PM

Hopefully Aaron will fix this shortcoming in the next patch.

Story.

Fyron · #2 July 24th, 2003, 11:58 PM

LOL! Think of how unmanageable the game would be with even 1 million stars in it.

Keep in mind that not all stars have planets orbiting them. You can think of those stars with no planets as being there, but not having WPs as they are useless systems (except for hidden bases, but those would be minor and better in a Nebula anyways).

PvK · #3 July 25th, 2003, 01:43 AM

On the other hand, not all SE4 systems have stars in them...

There's a good reason the playing fields are labelled "quadrants" and not "galaxies".

PvK

geoschmo · #4 July 25th, 2003, 01:48 AM

Se4 Risk will have a meta-map with all 70 sextillion stars. We are gonna use an actual map of the universe. Of course by the time it's done the stars will have all moved so much we'll need to revise the map.

PvK · #5 July 25th, 2003, 02:02 AM

Which you will be doing by hand using the SE4 map editor?

PvK

Rollo · #6 July 25th, 2003, 02:10 AM

Well, keep in mind that in the system maps background each of those white or grey specks is a star as well.

I never counted them. Nor do they have impact on the game...

Why am I posting this?

*Rollo wanders off...

Kamog · #7 July 25th, 2003, 08:15 AM

Maybe for SE5, he could make the map infinite in size. You start off with a small map as usual, but when you explore the systems at the edges, more systems are added to the perimeter of the map, so that the galaxy expands. The more you explore, the more the outer envelope expands. The systems will be randomly created at the fringes as you explore further and further out.

dogscoff · #8 July 25th, 2003, 09:30 AM

ANyone remember Frontier: Elite II? That had about a squillion consistent systems in it (and each system had planets, and each planet had terrain). And all that from a 880k floppy in my Amiga 500!

Taera · #9 July 25th, 2003, 09:34 AM

hmm.. how much is it Squillion?

OFF TOPIC what are the names for higher numbers anyways? its Million, Billion...?

Narf'scompatshop · #10 July 25th, 2003, 09:53 AM

trillion.

and there's a googal to, but i forget how large that is. mathematician's son came up with that. sounds about right for a really big number.

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