Hmm, my current game is pretty crazy. Im sure it has to do with the game options im playing - still quite complicated at this point. Just keep finding connections from new systems into excising systems creating new and grander loops.

I promise you guys i really did try to clean it up, but i simply cant find a better way to simplify it. Sometimes I wonder what the starmap would look like if a had discovered the systems in another time-order. If anyone can do a better clean up of this starmap I would really be excited to see what you could come up with.

At this point im really missing some functions on the star map. Especially: Zoom, display system number, and options to turn on/off display of connections between systems.

It's actually common if you do not set at least 4 jump point at the start in Sol […]

Possibly, although I have never before had any chain end after just two jumps from Sol. Bad luck to have it happen in the one game where I only have two jump points in Sol.

You mean a torpedo delivery service?

I've decided to try out particle cannons in this game, but yes!

Quote from: Kaiser on November 02, 2020, 07:57:42 AM

Has anyone ever encounter human NPR? (if playing with)

Not yet, but I enabled that option for my current game. Maybe I will soon enough!

On the other hand, this is the craziest map I've ever seen. I've just discovered that I'm trapped in a cul-de-sac:



I guess I'm going to need a diplomatic ship in a hurry.

It's actually common if you do not set at least 4 jump point at the start in Sol, I think it is also in the guide for a new game setup (VB6 Version)

You can always add one though

 

I wish I could discover so much guys 

Has anyone ever encounter human NPR? (if playing with)

It totally fascinate me the possibility to discover these humans in some remote body, but still same as human player.

I've never seen a map that crazy, but my previous game had a really giant and inconvenient loop:



The loop was about two dozen systems in circumference. The long off-axis edge at the bottom of the map is the connection that tied the loop together, and it's actually even longer than it looks. I later adjusted the map so that it was at least displayed as a horizontal line and didn't intersect any systems, but I guess I never took a screenshot of it.

It's actually got worse, with even more loops

I got the impression it was always possible for a jump point to form a new connection to a local system even if that local system had already had all it's jump points surveyed, so you could always get a new local link; my game certainly seems to occasionally form a new jump-link to a fully surveyed system. I might be mistaken though.

Its entirely possible to get a new link into a fully surveyed system. Question is, if all system in the local range are known, can you still get a loop into that system from a non-local system, or do loops only form between local systems.

In general I tend to rise the local system chance, and lower the number that a system is recognized as a local system.

I suspect that is why I usually get a lot of loops. However I came to realize that if you lower the range of local systems, eventually you run out of system that can form a loop as there are no more system that are considered local, and system has to be local to form a loop right? or so at least I think it is working. (IE if local range is 8 and you are in system 10 and system 2-18 is already known, there are no more local system to system 10 and a loop would be impossible, right?)

I miss the old VB mechanics though, where you cold see the system number in the galaxy window.