PlanetsCentral

streu in Re: Explore Map:

Well, how realistic is reaching a star in 81 ly distance within a single month?

Well, I'ld love to play a space game with a realistic physical engine just once. Including inertness and impuls. But there are none and for a reason. In case of lightspeed: would you play planets if it took X x (81 x 12) turns; X>1 to reach the next planet? ;-)

Think of the universe as one big sun system with many planets. And Reavers and creepy blue-gloved agents. Soon, it makes perfect sense to travel between planets within a month. Heck, the game is called "Planets", it's just that we got the name of the distance unit wrong :-)

Explore map on the other hand ... well for gameplay it doesn't really matter. It's different, sure. However it's not crucial. :D

Personally, I also don't play much different with ExploreMap, but it adds a little more suspense to exploration. I.e. hyperjumping races don't start the game by exploring all planets that can be connected with 350+-10 ly jumps.

--Stefan