I'm trying to make a really massive star system that is realistic, with tons of custom POIs to explore. For instance, I'm designing several dungeon style POI's that are unique (only one of each will exist), which are very hard. I am designing this for singleplayer first, but I'll eventually make a multiplayer version server owners can use. I would love to get some help. The scale of this project that I want to achieve will be almost impossible to do on my own. If you think you could help by making POIs, making planets, coming up with lore, designing PDA missions, or by doing anything else, please let me know. The star system is divided into several sectors, each with their own perks and difficulties. Sorry for the crappy image, this is just for example. I'll explain each region in detail bellow. Talon Space The Talon are an intelligent people that refuse to use advanced technologies due to their religious beliefs. In the distant past, the Talon were enslaved by humanity. After humanity died out in the Final War, the Federation decided to give the Talon independence. Today, the Talon expand across multiple planets. Their villages sometimes contain decent loot, but they usually don't have much. However, their worlds are extremely habitable. After humans began waking from chryosleep, many of them began to settle in these regions. Federation Space After humanity died, the various races that were once enslaved by mankind found themselves fighting for power in the new power vacuum that formed. Believing in the freedoms of each individual, a group of alien races formed what became known as the Federation. The Federation is the most populated region of the system, and is a center of trade and commerce. Worlds in Federation space are mostly habitable, though there are a few extreme planets. The federation is at constant war with the Rados to the south, and there are many outposts from the Rados that can be raided in their territory. Desolate Space This region was once the capital region of the human empire. Today, it full of radioactive tomb worlds, covered with diseased ancestors of humanity known as the horrors. Recently, a new species known as the hexapods appeared in this region, and they seem to thrive in the radiation. However, they are a hive mind race, and they do not even try to communicate before attacking people that approach them. Due to the hexapods and the radiation, this region of space is left largely untouched by the other races. For explorers, there is much wealth to be found in this region in the ruins left over by humanity. Many explorers lose their lives in this region, as the automated defenses of many of the ruins are still active. Rados Space Unlike the Talon and the Federation, the Rados are unwelcoming to the recent return of humanity. They have policies in place to shoot humans on sight, making this region very difficult for humans to explore. Hot Space Hot space is refereed to by this name for many reasons. First of all, the region is extremely hot, due to its proximity to the suns of the system (there are two, one of which is a brown dwarf and is visitable). It is also refereed to by this name, because it is the most resource rich region of the entire system. This region is the only place where Erestrum can be found in reasonable quantities, making it attractive to enterprising miners. Due to a recent conflict between the Rados and the Federation, the region has been designated as a demilitarized zone. However, there is nothing stopping the newly awoken humans from entering this region to take its riches for themselves. Without any government in this region, humans are known to fight each other here quite frequently (this is a pvp region).
Here is a preview version, contains a few days of work. It only has a few planets, but they are all very detailed. Might contain a few bugs. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1140335759 Note that the plague planet and the moons are meant to wipe every week. This is so that players can use them as endless supplies of resources/pois. In the worlds that don't wipe, there are only non-hostile pois with admin cores, so players cant destroy them completely. I plan on the final version having a lot more planets. If anyone would like to help me with this project, that would be appreciated.
So I share everything and anything. So if you want a crapton of already modified POIs some awesome some average, and around 100 different planets all hand custom made so all the YAMLs are easy to read none of them are done in a generator, feel free to download the Lost City of Sol from workshop and use any of the planets or POIs you want. You don't need to credit me or anyone else for building your scenario. Just take your time if its your first one, and start the game up a lot and test before adding or changing to much at a time or tracking the bugs can get very hard. If it bugs out, check your latest log first it usually tells you what YAML is at fault and on that YAML what line and column also, makes tracking errors easy. PS, the Lost City of Sol has 2 versions, the biggest difference is the SP version is all PvP, but at 7.0 theres a huge update for the SP version which adds another 9 new planets, some of my best yet, the MP version has all its playfields mixed up, some PvE some PvP. Good luck, more scenarios is always better than less !
I love this scale, but unfortunately in south africa our player base is maybe 20-30 at a time and i want player interactions. so a big solar system doesnt work. But i am happy to assist
