Board Thread:Planning/@comment-1743498-20131214024110/@comment-3155949-20131217014129

I can sum it up here, and make a new blog post if there's interest:

-Drastically reduce scale. Large empires like the EIT would have, at most, 15 star systems under full control and maybe 5 or 6 dubious claims with partial administration.

-Drastically reduce distance scale. We'd need to find some way to justify the limits of FTL, or we could go the Freelancer route and make inter-system travel possible via jump gates or jump hole-like objects, thus opening up the additional opportunity for linear territory (for example, Sius being at the center of the EIT and accessible only from other inner systems)

-This seems to be mostly scale reduction, but this includes population and military. The largest fleets might have, at most, 160 to 200 large battleships and carriers, and those who tend to be productive with vessel names (such as I) might even be able to put them all into a single huge list.

This would make things SO much easier for everyone. Individual locations and events would be much more meaningful, and numbers would be so much easier to form. I'm willing to go into detail about anything should there be questions or concerns, but I really want to investigate this.

An add-on idea would be for every user to add a system each month, so that the universe would be constantly expanding, but in a logical and manageable way.