Fiction Diary #5
In this latest Elite: Dangerous Fiction Diary Michael talks about the process of putting together the galaxy for the game. He also answers a few questions posed by backers from the DDF.
check it out here
Edit: can we have that background as image? It looks simply beautiful. Thanks in advance
Great Update, One question.
Are the requested planet descriptions from the writers?
I didn't see that is was possible for a planet description. How does you access this.
The descriptions where for those naming star systems.
Michael
Jongware said:So, there are about 15,000 stars named "Aaa", "Hohoho" and "Lalala". Fortunately they are spaced out *very* far, in the order of 2,000 sectors apart (that's a rough guess).
People of a geeky persuasion might be interested in an analysis of FFE's galaxy-generation algorithm. When I was just getting into programming, reading it gave me some really interesting concepts to chew on.
Anyone able to identify ship on right, I may be being rubbish on my ship ID here..?