For a while, Eleon had simply entered this information into the database. Simple and accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, they then removed it again, for whatever reason ???
Huh .. missed that. I only ever saw the place you had been. Pre-extending the db with one of the biggest public data structures should have been a performance win- limiting writes and the associated locking along with the overhead of extending tablespace is typically where relational dbs grind. The issues with large multiplayer seem to come in as the game progresses over time (fragmentation? sequential reads on critical tables?) .. in any case since all players can simply look up at the sky and see the same stars and the galaxy map supports search by name it shouldn't fall into the "exploit" category.
