Newtonian Aurora - Galactic Map Question

[UnLimiTeD]

So there's more useful systems on the edges, while in turn, starting outwards will result in "reaching the border" sooner, where there is nothing left?
Well, game balance wise, that could be fine, but that'd seriously hurt my suspension of disbelief.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

So there's more useful systems on the edges, while in turn, starting outwards will result in "reaching the border" sooner, where there is nothing left?
Well, game balance wise, that could be fine, but that'd seriously hurt my suspension of disbelief.

Well, not necessarily more useful systems. With regard to the fact that starting near the edge will mean you reach a border where there are no more stars - unless I create an infinite universe then there is always going to be an edge.

Steve

[chrislocke2000]

Well, game balance wise, that could be fine, but that'd seriously hurt my suspension of disbelief.

I don't see a problem with reaching an edge, isn't this just representative of the confines of a single galaxy with stars in the next galaxy over just being too far away to be practically reachable? I guess it's just a scale piece in that you don't have all the stars in the milky way on the map?

[fcharton]

We're on much smaller scales here than galactic radius, unless I misunderstood something, we're talking of a 100 LY radius sphere around Sol, and a few thousand stars, compared to hundreds of billions in our galaxy.

Francois