Old Zone Reorganization Ideas

These are the old notes. The new notes are available here

Zones in Rebooted Expanse

• The expanse will be smaller than 3000x3000
• Zones will have different 'features', e.g. some zones will have special rare ores, others with certain AI
• It would be nice if people can choose, at the time they form their empire, what zone to start in. This allows friends to start fairly close to each other or alliances from the us1 game to re-group in the new game.

My suggestion is as follows:-

• Please can we re-organize zones so that all zones are the same size?! Example follows
• make all zones 200 by 200 (rather than 250 or 500 width or height)
• zone 0 will be centered and will go from -100 to +99 inclusive
• there will still be 121 zones
• size of expanse will be from -1100 to +1099 inclusive, total size 2200x2200

Trade between zones

• currently there can be no trade between adjacent zones.
• two colonies, only a few units apart but separated by a zone boundary cannot trade via the Trade Ministry.

To correct this, allow trade between adjacent zones. Any zone can trade within it's own zone and any of the adjacent eight zones.

Notes by Norway

• I'd be comfortable with fewer zones.
• Trade between adjacent zones sounds good. I think I'd prefer by distance, but more of a pain to code.
• I like the idea of same sized zones, though slightly different idea.
• Zone 0,0 would only be held by the Lacuna Star at 0,0. Make it owned by Lacuna. For now, make it just the one planet, though I would like the ability to add planets later. (Future idea, but not for this discussion)
• Zones then would be 1-200 ... 601-800 numbered -4 to 4 for 64 zones. (Though even 3x3 would be feasible)
• Right now, there are four capitols outside the bounds of 1000 from center. If you ignore the neutral zone, three more capitols get added for outside the bounds of 500 from center. This doesn't include all those people with colonies outside of the center to take advantage of lack of lottery competition.
• I would setup AIs mainly in the 2 & -2 zones with a new Neutral Zone in 2|2.