12-07-2020, 06:17 PM
I’ll email Jay to see if he will extend permission to recreate the game. I believe he bought the IP (and source code) specifically to get the game up and running again somehow - he had been funding Vern’s efforts to this end, I believe.
Did you see the hochler forum?
As for universe creation - Vern’s parameters were that each player should have a number of stars in his local mini-cluster, reachable with Hyper Engine - 1 tech, and each mini-cluster would be isolated from the others, and the central mini-cluster, by a distance requiring tech 3 to cross. Further, each mini-cluster was in one of the 8 “corners” of the 30-LY overall cluster, if viewed as a cube in space. And each mini-cluster would have the same number of habitable worlds, but the bulk of the HAB was going to be found in the middle.
Did you see the hochler forum?
As for universe creation - Vern’s parameters were that each player should have a number of stars in his local mini-cluster, reachable with Hyper Engine - 1 tech, and each mini-cluster would be isolated from the others, and the central mini-cluster, by a distance requiring tech 3 to cross. Further, each mini-cluster was in one of the 8 “corners” of the 30-LY overall cluster, if viewed as a cube in space. And each mini-cluster would have the same number of habitable worlds, but the bulk of the HAB was going to be found in the middle.