Numbers
Currently, the sizes of maps are (in tiles):
- Galaxy overview: 80*80
- Starmap: 8388608 * 8388608 (= 70 368 744 177 664 tiles)
- Solar systems: 1024*1024 per system
- Planet surface overview maps: ranging from 512*256 to 65536*32768
- Planet surface detail: around 128*128 per overview tile
Miscellaneous trivia:
- There are currently 16 textures in the surface overview generator.
- There can be up to 6 stars and 9 planets in one solar system.
- There are three types of planets: gas giant, rock/ice and gaia.
- Starmap nebulae and the stars are generated by 6 layers of Perlin noise.
- Client has some 2500 and server around 1000 lines of code (Sep/10/2009)