I think you are getting this wrong. sins will not feature billions of planets. in fact you can mod it for as much as you like, but you will not find any computer on this planet that will be able to do it. maybe with all computers' calculating power put together it might work, but I doubt it.

besides that as you correctly point out you wouldnt be able to manage it. just to give you a scope of this game. medium gaves have about 30 planets in a single star system, the largest maps now have 6 star systems and about 60 planets. that's actually fun and can be played without getting crazy or it being an organisational nightmare. I heard ppl who tried a few hundred planets across a few dozen star systems. probably gameplay will be broken at this point, but it has been done and it can be done, but this is usually the point where computer power becomes a limiting item.

hope this answered some of your points. and remember that in sins every planet is essentially a (very) small rts map of its own. like the empire of war battle maps, but without transition and interconnected.

It can be, if you want it to be. The release will come with a randomish galaxy generator where in theory you would be able to create 10 star systems with 100 planets each if you wanted. But most of the default maps that we have in beta are more limited.

In Multiplayer, single star maps with more planets are most popular, since it makes games end in a reasonable amount of time

Thats... not really a good description. Each star system is a series of battles, not just one. And while interstellar flights take forever, I don't think they actually take 10 minutes.

Solution? Solution for what? The unwieldiness of large empires?

It can be, but with random matches people still usually want them to be over fairly quickly If you gather some friends and say 'hey let's have one huge game running on weekends' you can do that, too.



*drum roll for Vasari*



Already exists The default panel shows every planer you've explored. So it shows all your colonies, all the scouted enemy planets, pirate bases, anomalies, etc etc. The other way to display the panel shows what you want it to show. You can hotkey key planets to throw them on it, for example.

Of course he did. You know how they love torturing us and letting just the tiniest hints and nudges slip through

Wow, way to jump in out of the blue and make what could have been a meaningful, if silly, statement just plain confusing.

Jumps don't need to have their timeframe increased, they already take forever as-is.

try 3.26 lightyears

(as a little bonus, last time i checked, Galciv II DA had an error with their tech description on one of their engine techs, they mix up parsecs and the speed of light or something like that)