What does Milky Way view serve?

[Erenussocrates]

As far as I understand, you can't go outside of your local cluster?

[Shiroe]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

As far as I understand, you can't go outside of your local cluster?

It's kind of the rankings vs other players.

[CrispyMuffin]

basically just a map showing off how many clustres have been generated by players, and how much power their dyson spheres are generating

while its basically purely for fun, and mostly like a leaderboard, its honestly really cool

[phadin]

Definately one of the more unique ways of highlighting the community work. I enjoy it.

[Growler]

its just a cool looking leaderboard

[Dragonmaster]

Honestly best type of leaderboard. You get to marvel at your star amonst the 1000's of other stars.

[Erenussocrates]

You only get to see the name and the watts generated by the dyson spheres though. I wish there was a way to view just more than that. It only serves as very resource intensive spreadsheet the way it is now. Maybe a way to zoom into their cluster and get a look at their planets and whatnot.

[phadin]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

You only get to see the name and the watts generated by the dyson spheres though. I wish there was a way to view just more than that. It only serves as very resource intensive spreadsheet the way it is now. Maybe a way to zoom into their cluster and get a look at their planets and whatnot.

If you think that is a resource intensive spreadsheet, imagine if it also had to save all the planets, stars, and production facilities placed through the system. Also, some systems can be worked by multiple people, so whos version of that system do you view? The amount of data the servers need to save would increase exponentially the more you want to see.

You can tell some things from the cluster address though, such as whether dark fog is present, what level of resources are available (x1, x2, infinite, etc).

[Shiroe]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

You only get to see the name and the watts generated by the dyson spheres though. I wish there was a way to view just more than that. It only serves as very resource intensive spreadsheet the way it is now. Maybe a way to zoom into their cluster and get a look at their planets and whatnot.

Since save data of built-up clusters is already too big for cloud save, zooming in on those is kind of impossible.
But AFAIK you can pick a seed from milky way view and play it for yourself.

[G4M5T3R]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

You only get to see the name and the watts generated by the dyson spheres though. I wish there was a way to view just more than that. It only serves as very resource intensive spreadsheet the way it is now. Maybe a way to zoom into their cluster and get a look at their planets and whatnot.

People generally don't like looking at spreadsheets. The visuals matter given the context is a game and every additional column requires more resources.

[Erenussocrates]

Originally posted by phadin:

If you think that is a resource intensive spreadsheet, imagine if it also had to save all the planets, stars, and production facilities placed through the system.

Yes but that would still be more worth than what it is right now I think.

[Shiroe]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

Originally posted by phadin:

If you think that is a resource intensive spreadsheet, imagine if it also had to save all the planets, stars, and production facilities placed through the system.

Yes but that would still be more worth than what it is right now I think.

Very late game saves run into the gigabytes. So unless you have a super fast internet connection and the save data is carefully constructed to first stream the high level/course info such as star systems and only on-demand anything built, even the first level zoom on a sector could lock up the game for maybe 10 minutes to hours...

[G4M5T3R]

Originally posted by Shiroe:

Very late game saves run into the gigabytes ... even the first level zoom on a sector could lock up the game for maybe 10 minutes to hours...

You can cancel the loading process by hitting Esc. In case you didn't know.

[Shiroe]

Originally posted by G4M5T3R:

Originally posted by Shiroe:

Very late game saves run into the gigabytes ... even the first level zoom on a sector could lock up the game for maybe 10 minutes to hours...

You can cancel the loading process by hitting Esc. In case you didn't know.

I was talking about the hypothetical that someone would want to look at/zoom in on one of those PW total power clusters and it would then have to fetch, say 3+ Gbyte of data for that... , which is probably one of the major reasons zoom in at Milkyway is not implemented.

[Ragnaman]

Its just a hall of fame scoreboard done in a cool way

btw the Petawatt stars are cheats, dont even try to attain that with normal gameplay. Its not an easy cheat tho, basically to get PW numbers you have to use dyson sphere blueprints that cant be made with ingame tools. So in a way its not a cheat but an exploit.