Map Size, Dimensions, Contents

[blue2leaf]

What are the dimensions of the full map in terms of Light Years?

How many planets are there roughly?

[Machine Elf]

There are something like 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets

eheh

[NMSPlayer]

The radius is around 720k lys per galaxy, 255 galaxies, 80 plus quintillion planets. Go explore LOL spend a lifetime :D

[korfan]

Aren't there 2^16 portal addresses?

[NMSPlayer]

Originally posted by korfan:

Aren't there 2^16 portal addresses?

There is one portal in every system that has a civilazation. So one per yellow, green and blue stars, none in red systems. Times 255 galaxies.

[japp_02]

The XX quintillion number of planets is *not* calculated based on how many solar systems are in the map because the number of planets would be much, much inferior (a solar system can have max. 6 planets inclusive moons). This big number is calculated based on how many distinct variation a planet can be generated with based on the procedural generation equation that takes account of a certain number of variables like plant types, rock types, colors, size, fauna species etc.
I don't know about the equation of course, this is a trademark secret, but only a slight different animal will make a 'different' planet, and so it's trivial to calculate that the overall distinct possible number is reaching the quintillion mark.

Instead, for the map it's roughly possible to know the nr. of planets by guessing the nr. of galactic regions and how many stars are within them. I guess then that the visible galaxy has around only 2-2.5 million stars, which doesnt' mean so many planets (maximum 15 million).

[blue2leaf]

Either way we're never going to be able to explore them all xD

[artsensi]

I've already pasted 800K lightyears in the 10th galaxy looking for the edge.