2022-03-10 Server Load

[Deantwo]

It sounds like decreasing the need for each individual empire surveying the same area of space would be a good idea to potentially lower the need for solar systems being visited multiple times. The easiest way to attempt to do this in the long-run would be to allow us to share starmap information with other empires. Selling star charts and survey information.

For example if an empire survey all systems in the Eastern Cluster, it would be nice if they could sell that survey information to new empire instead of forcing them to survey each and every solar system themselves. I have always loved the idea of burning a sector's survey information onto a disk and selling it to another player, and now that we have media devices with more space this doesn't seem all that troublesome.

Alternatively surveying sectors with NPC commanded ships could be made more automated. For example order a ship to survey a whole sector, the ship then simple go to the sector and vanish for whatever amount of time it would take the ship to survey all the solar systems. This could be done without the ship actually entering the empty non-generated solar systems. If a solar system in the sector isn't empty you just have the ship enter that solar system like normal and cut the surveying short.