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Whats the biggest Galaxy you have made?

February 5, 2008 5:53:03 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I trawled through the achievements and discovered an easy one. Make and preview a galaxy map. So i popped over into the map maker and played around with the sliders and made an absolutely ENORMUS Galaxy. It had over 250 Planets, too many stars to count (because planets are quickly estimated while stars are not) I can only imagine the Months it would take to actualy Play this map. The game created and loaded this monster in the same amount of time it takes to make and load a normal map.
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Reply #1 February 5, 2008 5:58:32 PM
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Just a point: why are the entire maps referred to as galaxies? aren't they just a collection of 3 or 4 stars? That's too small even to call a star cluster.
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Reply #2 February 5, 2008 6:00:56 PM
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It's a nice word that you can type fast.
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Reply #3 February 5, 2008 6:00:57 PM
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Just a point: why are the entire maps referred to as galaxies? aren't they just a collection of 3 or 4 stars? That's too small even to call a star cluster.



sins is not a game based on reality.

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Reply #4 February 5, 2008 6:03:41 PM
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Easily recognizable terms make the world go 'round? If your inner astronomer weeps bitter tears, just pretend that it's a small collection of stars in the middle of a bunch of other collections of stars. Meh.
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Reply #5 February 5, 2008 6:04:33 PM
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Yeah... but still; "map" is easier and faster, isn't it?

Hmm... I'll prefer to think of these things as simple "star groups"

To each his own, I suppose...
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Reply #6 February 5, 2008 6:07:28 PM
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Sure it's faster by half a burnt hair, but it ain't as fancy. And being fancy is what counts!
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Reply #7 February 5, 2008 6:09:08 PM
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Point taken... but I still refuse to call it a galaxy
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Reply #8 February 5, 2008 6:15:17 PM
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Hey, people used to call individual star systems galaxies for some reason... if they're doing that for the entire map, we're up one.
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Reply #9 February 5, 2008 6:17:35 PM
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*stubborn*
*mutters something about an insult to astronomy*
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Reply #10 February 5, 2008 6:19:38 PM
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Look on the bright side. This is a game where you get to incinerate children by the millions while their parents die of decompression and radiation poisoning in orbit.

It's awesome, what do a few labels matter?
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Reply #11 February 5, 2008 6:49:09 PM
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...well, I suppose when you put it like that - I guess the pros do outweigh the cons!
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