In this game, I wanted the galaxy to have far more inter-connections than standard ( i.e. close to 0 - my 65 system galaxy had one interconnection present ). So I set the default local chance to be 75%, and the local spread to be 10. I started, and went out exploring. I found a jump connection between the very first two systems I discovered, so I thought this was going to be exactly what I wanted.
30 systems later, and I have found no more interconnections at all. Just this one solitary connection between two systems one jump from Sol. Turning on the System ID numbers in Galaxy view, I can see I have most of the systems numbered 1-15, and then a dozen random large numbered planets. Even after finding the Number 3 system, which had 8 jump points in it, I had 0 connections to systems I already knew. And this repeated in a similar incident with the number 8 system, which had 6 JP's.
So is this a case of me being spectacularly unlucky, or is this a misunderstanding on my part of how the Jump Network maps out? If a system has no more unexplored jump points, is it possible for a new one to appear? ( I noticed a "suspected dormant jump point" box somewhere, what is this for?) If I want a very interconnected system, do I set the local generation chance to 95%, and the spread to 5 or something?
Thanks for any pointers on the subject,
Elvin