Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: March 31, 2015, 04:53:42 PM »That last paragraph gets completely ignored in a 'real stars' game, and instead the new system is picked randomly from the nearest 50 (I think) stars according to astrography.
In Real Stars, Aurora has a 20% chance of selecting a given system. It works through all the stars in order of increasing distance. So 20% chance of the nearest star, then if that isn't selected, 20% chance of second nearest star, etc..