Could someone explain:

[jimbob55]

Each entry has a size of one system (planets, populations, values etc.)
so the size of a 16 bit system list would be a lot bigger than twice. It's 2 to the power of 8 times larger (in fact 256 squared).

It would be possible to scale up by factors of 2 but this would require a fair bit of coding just to check how big the system list is every time it parses it.

Bearing in mind I get a noticable pause when looking at my shiplist when there's more that 150 or so entries, a larger galaxy could bring the program to a grinding halt.

And yet again while i'm typing, someone else has already answered.

[This message has been edited by jimbob55 (edited 08 May 2001).]