Reaver Space... lots of pirates and space junk between 2 planets like Miranda and Haven???

I'm going to start work on updating this map to the standards of Distant Stars v. 0.85. This mod will allow for much greater variation in planet types. I will be making the outer stars into companion stars, putting everything in one solar system, and will also be making certain planets into moons, huge planets or dwarf planets. Expect it quite soon.

Once this is finished, I'll get to work on the Burnham system minimap. I've already read the space junk suggestions for this map, feel free to exploit democracy and voice yourself.

The Undying.

As Always Very Very Nice. I was able to get a semi-working mod up and running, but im afraid i was out-gunned pretty quickly. I have been in the middle of classes, so havent devoted as much time as i would have liked, but will try to get back to it and see if i can add something that might be interesting, hopefully.   

As you say though, the Distant Stars, Sins Plus and I believe 7DS would play this very very nicely!!

-Teal

Knock yourself out.

If you're going to make a 50+ star system map, you'll need the attention span of a boulder with unmoving eyes and some serious hardware.

I use two programs, Galaxy Forge and 2D Design, to make maps of such complexity. I use 2D Design to pinpoint the locations of each planet, moon, and asteroid belt group and emulate their orbits, enabling me to relocate them at appropriate points in their orbit. Before I do all this, I carefully calibrate the scale and size relative to Galaxy Forge coordinates. Unfortunately 2D Design is not freeware.

Secondly, is there a way in SINS to make the map already 'pre-explored' but have the 'fog of war' present so you have no idea what's at each planet but you know what the planet's name is? The big problem I have with most pre-created maps is that I have no idea where I am or where I am going in relation to things because I don't know what they're called until I get there.

I had a quick look on Google to find a mod that specialised in this, but unfortunately I don't think such a thing exists. One trick you can use in Galaxy Forge is to place scouts in planets you want intel on when you start; just don't forget to allocate these scouts to faction ownership.

The Undying, I have been thinking about how to re-approach my Honorverse map, which will have 50+ star systems. Before I get to the picture below, I was curious. If I stick with standard since colonizable planet types, no funky moons, all that stuff would you be willing to help me out with map construction?

Around each star (with a few exceptions) there will be anywhere from 0-3 colonizable planets, max # number of planets (astroid belts and debris included) around 7.

I only want your standard number of sins pirates on the colonizable planets in the system. Out of all of the 50+ systems, only maybe 5 are going to ahve pirate bases.

With this reduced number of pirate ships running around, as well as reduced number of planetary bodies per 'star system', along with my Multiple Stars Graphics Mod https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/348205 performance should be enhanced decently. Would the creation of a large map be possible? I'd like it far enough apart that going from one corner of the map to the other corner (diagonal) will takea bout 5-10 minutes of travel time. Thus, making the control of systems with a wormhole very important.

Would you be willing to help me out? This is my 4th iteration on trying to get a map to work properly the way i'd like. (I would like to try and leave the scale at default values if possible.

the link dosent work #4

I would like to point out a slight problem with the map. As the border worlds, you have alot of negative income, while the alliance has a good deal of positive income. I would at least bring the border worlds intot he positive area, its kindof hard to build the improvements nessesary to gain income if you don't have the money for it in the first place (a wonderful example of the effects of poverty BTW)

I've returned to the project and will be producing a reformed map of the Firefly system.

The Undying,

Be aware that the issue of making huge multi-stare maps with planet icons not behaving correctly when zooming out has been solved according to Blair Fraser. It will make it into the next patch for Sins.

So is it finished yet?  Muahahaha! 

I've been really slacking off in the map department myself...

TU, keep in mind that the planet zoom issue is now fixed. I've also updated my Multiple Stars Graphics Mod for all current versions.

I'm also cranking away on my huge map. Look for a playable test version within a month or so. Until then it's all in alpha and then beta while I get everything squared away.

Actually, that's where I would have wanted to see a continuation of the movie/series go--towards emerging civil war.  Good premise.

As a mod, the tough part is the lack of ships to include.  There are a lot of screens of ships but military ones are so varied in style and a complete fleet line up is really missing.  You'll have to look hard.  Intro to the Firefly series and the battle scene in Serenity probably have the most total number of vessels you'll find.

FYI, there was an authorized (by Josh) purchasable online pack long ago that had blueprints and info on the armed Firefly gunship  and it stated that it was widely used by the Independents during the war as a gunship, commerce raider and fleet asset--with variations for different missions roles being quite numerous.

I found the references too it and some of the text with a small picture years ago but never saw the poster/booklet itself.  I guess not many were sold at first and few were printed.

Ah...here we go.  It was from an authorized model making company.  Here's the pics: