Beating the 255 barrier

[Nebraskan]

Atrocities:

I had something like this happen when I first started playing SE4Gold. I was using the SE4G Mapmaker to make maps that I would then edit. I had modified the Quadrent.txt file for the Grid type quadrent, I was trying to get more than 117 systems by spacing the systems closer and using 255 as the number of systems. What happened was that SE4Gold Mapmaker using grid type quadrent still looked like it had 117 systems but somehow many of the systems were actually underneath the topmost systems. I turned on the system names switch and you could not read the names because they were printed on top of each other. I actually started playing a game with one of these systems and it was AWESOME and somewhat confusing. I could see where my home system was but could not always move to the next system by clicking on it because it was in a different layer.

I know this is not exactly what you were getting at, but it has some of the same qualities that you were explaining about connecting systems and different layers of quadrents.