Give it a 3rd arm then, or something. We need more wild space gals far more than we need new peri space gals.

Should be fun

I've been working on some changes to the universe layout for the next universe.

First, in order to decrease travel times and make navigating between layers more intuitive, I've put all the up/down links between layers in the middle of each layer, with a small pocket of protected galaxies in the middle. Added to these are increased w4 jumps that can take you out to the rest of the layer. This means that travel distance from Sol to Perilous space is now 2 jumps, so hopefully getting together Olympus runs, etc, won't be nearly as annoying.

Second, there's a new layer called Celestial Garden which will allow building by f2p's. (Code isn't in yet.) The planets here will be worse and also there won't be any artifacts to find.

There's still more work to be done, but I wanted to get this up to get some early feedback. You can see it on the test2 server, but you'll need a test client in order for the map to work right: http://www.starsonata.com/TestClient01-11.zip. Also, you can buy an item in Free Market that gives you the full uni map, so you don't have to go exploring to see what's what.

The people have spoken. I found a random seed that let me add +100 gals to wild space and still have a decent spiral shape, so total will be +250 gals, +100 in perilous, +50 in celestial garden, +100 in wild space, and +whatever random DG's hang off the added 250 galaxies.