down/up scaling the universe

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Warlord_Endar
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down/up scaling the universe

Post by Warlord_Endar »

I can imagine this is been asked 1000 times. but can't find it now:

How can i (as a modder) downscale the sizes of the universe. It's just annoying for e.g. a story driven, high possibility, grand scale(much places to visit) to need 20 minutes to fly from one jump gate to another.
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Post by Melonhead »

I think you do it using the *.system files. In PR, there are *.system files for each system in the Gemini sector, which have "scale" entries. If you un-comment the jump gates to other sectors, you go back to "full scale" systems, because these systems are created by the wcuniverse.xml file (equivalent to milky_way.xml for Vega Strike).

I've read that's why we can't just move PR into the WC Universe code--all the scales are different, so all the mission script triggers won't work. And, as you noted, it takes 20 minutes to drive to the planet after you come out of autopilot.
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