its been in my head for some time now....and I do say that an bigger Space is needed to get more active lines int his game. Its been what....half year now.....since I played VO....and now I came back and see that nothing has changed in mapping.

Thought other aspects did change, I still would like to see something happing to this feature.

Now I know how members feel about the current map and that it should stay un thoughts. Mainly I agreed with you, the current map is good as it is. Thats why I would propose an new Galaxy. Your wondering 'New Galaxy?' yes an new system. The New Galaxy would be the original Galaxy were vo story line came from. Yes I am talking about Earth.

A lot has change in the time line when the gate closed to now! so why not make an story over it that the gate way reopens with an armada of earth vessels entering. They take over Bracus System and in name of the Earth's Federation they retake control of Sol II Galaxy.

An War will start with Earths armada and Serco Nation. Itani will try to do it peacefully but soon will feel that they will have no change against the force's.

What ya all think? This can be open in the future (not now at onces)

Expanding Space: its been in my head for some time now

Yeah, I'd say that about sums you up.

the current universe is big enough. in fact, it's too big for the current user base.

expanding that ought be the least of the dev's concerns.

they need to fill it, rather than expand it. be it with content or players. preferably both.

Lol thats why i said this This can be open in the future (not now at onces)

there needs to be more combat areas when new people start coming. thats all it needs

There are 30 systems and ~256 sectors per system that qualify as "combat areas". Need more than that?

there are only two real combat sectors and both are in deneb. other combat sectors are just places where there are players fighting

I have pretty much fights in Latos.

And in Verasi, when pirates get sick of Latos.

My understanding is that one day, wormholes would start sporadically popping up in random sectors, and they'd lead to uninhabited new systems away from the core systems. It'd be great if the Devs just implemented this without telling anyone. =)

The universe won't be expanded until there's an exploration addon, or potentially a few added systems for some specific purpose (like as war grounds). For the forseeable future though, we have plenty of space. Too much, as people say. The whole exploration of the unknown would be a really cool aspect to add in (people loved it in the alphas), but we need to improve a lot of fundamentals before that will get priority.

Ironically, some of my current goals are not so much "expanding" space as actually using what we already have. For instance, intra-sector navigation, with multiple stations within a given sector, and nav waypoints to head for and so on. We have a great deal of space, and use very little of it at present.

Oh well it was only an Idea =)

What about using the Story only? later in the game that is

There are plans for moving the greater storyline forward. If we weren't spending so much time on nuts-and-bolts development, that would have a higher priority :(. But I left the current backstory with a number of specific directions in mind for where the universe would go from there, and I still want to follow up on those plans.

Well If ya need help, give me an ring =) I did spoken to you as well on irc

and nav waypoints to head for and so on

soooo, this would be in a single sector, and would make flying from one point to another even more boring than just holding turbo and chatting? gah!