Re: Adding To The Star Map
Personally I'd love an auto-template, as it would make updating the map a whole lot easier, and present less stress on you Wes.
However, why would we have homeworlds for new faction close to existing ones? For one, it'd make it very difficult for a new faction to expand outward, because the systems and such 'around' them have already been taken up by other factions, such as either Nepland, Yamatai, Lorath, UoC (Defunct), NMX.... you name it.
Unless your going with the thought that there are still planets that have been undiscovered between the current existing ones, that I can pretty much accept as plausible. But then, we'd need to make the map dots smaller to account for that, or possibly even make the map itself completely interactive, to allow people to move about the map itself.
I do know of one RP site I once rp'd on that had an interactive map, that the players used to use to set up planets and show their domains that they controlled, it was actually pretty useful and nifty. It's probably something you can look into, and depending on how its designed, it could make it very easy to alter on the fly to show changes during a war or even during peacetime. It also show travel lines as well (trade-lanes perhaps?)
Personally I'd love an auto-template, as it would make updating the map a whole lot easier, and present less stress on you Wes.
However, why would we have homeworlds for new faction close to existing ones? For one, it'd make it very difficult for a new faction to expand outward, because the systems and such 'around' them have already been taken up by other factions, such as either Nepland, Yamatai, Lorath, UoC (Defunct), NMX.... you name it.
Unless your going with the thought that there are still planets that have been undiscovered between the current existing ones, that I can pretty much accept as plausible. But then, we'd need to make the map dots smaller to account for that, or possibly even make the map itself completely interactive, to allow people to move about the map itself.
I do know of one RP site I once rp'd on that had an interactive map, that the players used to use to set up planets and show their domains that they controlled, it was actually pretty useful and nifty. It's probably something you can look into, and depending on how its designed, it could make it very easy to alter on the fly to show changes during a war or even during peacetime. It also show travel lines as well (trade-lanes perhaps?)