another couple of hundred islands would help, I really think the devs just are not thinking big enough. Alpha should be 40 islands, beta a hundred and gamma another 200. Peple would naturally converge around trade hubs but think how many problems this would solve.
alt scouts
spawn camping
sparks
emergent gameplay
power projection
The game would have scale and scale would provide space for the kind of growth the game needs. Even if you procedurally generated them based on copies of current maps (or old maps) it would be better than currently. I know it seems like this would make the world seem empty but thats what made early eve 0.0 so exciting.
Is there server contraints that would prevent this?
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