How many stations are there?

Pyrion

Pyrion
I would really like to know how many stations there are. Here is a very fuzzy estimate:

Lets say inhabited space is roughly a cube with 300*300*300 LY volume. That is 27,000,000 cubic LY. Lets say in a 10*10*10 LY region there are about 4 inhabited systems (i may be really off here, just a wild guess). That would mean roughly 100000 inhabited systems. Lets say each inhabited system has somewhere in between 2 to 3 stations on average. That would put the number of stations at around 250000.

Could a developer tell me how far i am off? Thank you :)
 

Sendraks

Sendraks
I'm interested in this as well, purely from the standpoint of how dispersed the playerbase could get across inhabited space if everyone played on Open. The current playerbase is around 400K. Which if the number of 100K inhabited systems is true, that puts us at 4players per system.

If everyone spread out, griefers would find it much harder to locate players to "pew pew" for lulz.
Pirates would have a harder time of it as well, but the proper dedicated pirate types will have done their research on trade routes and work out where to go.
 

graham.reeds

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Sendraks said:
I'm interested in this as well, purely from the standpoint of how dispersed the playerbase could get across inhabited space if everyone played on Open. The current playerbase is around 400K. Which if the number of 100K inhabited systems is true, that puts us at 4players per system.

If everyone spread out, griefers would find it much harder to locate players to "pew pew" for lulz.
Pirates would have a harder time of it as well, but the proper dedicated pirate types will have done their research on trade routes and work out where to go.
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But that won't happen. People congregate and that in turn attracts more people.

There was 4800 known systems the last time I fired up Slopey BPC. Some of them have more than one station, so lets say they have on average 2 stations. That makes for nearly 10,000 stations. People are adding to the total all the time. You could look it up the current number on EDDN maybe.
 

Sendraks

Sendraks
graham.reeds said:
But that won't happen. People congregate and that in turn attracts more people.

There was 4800 known systems the last time I fired up Slopey BPC. Some of them have more than one station, so lets say they have on average 2 stations. That makes for nearly 10,000 stations. People are adding to the total all the time. You could look it up the current number on EDDN maybe.
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Yeah I know it won't happen, because as you say people congregate. However, people could be spread out more in game than they are at present, if they just bothered to break out of the mindset of clustering round certain systems.

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Derpster Frey said:
http://eddb.io/api
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Cheers! Have some rep.
 

Pyrion

Pyrion
That's not an official number. It's just the number that people edited into that database. So it is very likely way too low. I frequently pass systems where when traffic checking, i have been the only one in the last 24 hours.
 
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