New universe details.

rocking!

Though, won't it feel very desolate?

Awesome... will signups be reopened? Because 50 players to 7000 sectors would make things... quiet...

Kewli!

Sweet holy bajeezus! That's a lot of space!

Daaaaamn... *drools*

7,680 !!!!! Will i be able to acctually meet other players? Jumpung!? WoW this is gonno be Huge!

Spider: it won't be desolate. usually people congregate together (more fun and stuff to do!). for example, s14, s16 are usually very quiet.
but if someone wants to go explore by themselves, this new universe will allow it. mmorpg, with a hint of single-player freedom. weee

Holy *beep* !!! Thanks for the update. That sounds very, very cool. I've heard of "systems" before, but I'm not quite sure what to think of them. So basically what you're saying is the current sectors put together (as one system) will not contain any wormholes and will just be one huge sector full of stations and asteroids? And a system will be what the current wormholes are now? Also, what's this "short-range jump engines" that's mentioned? Does this mean no more hitting the boost key a gazillion times to cross a large sector?

/me drools

W00. Yay!

Are the systems gonna be arranged in a square, a nonuniform rectangle or something else entirely?

/me drools

If you could see my face, it would look something like this:
http://junk.haughey.com/mophos/imgNQCrUd.jpg

Yes, Magus...I can see you looking like the guy on the left :D

Will any of the current sectors survive the transition or will all of the new universe be new?

evoli...I've started an Excel spreadsheet for entering the new sectors, links, wormholes and information. I'll share it with you when we start exploring.

Serco pilots...we must get together in team chat to discuss strategies.

roger that, Relayer! any new -secret- sectors out of the fanatical 7680 sector universe? *g*

"Are the systems gonna be arranged in a square, a nonuniform rectangle or something else entirely?"
ctishman: eh? what do you mean arranged? if it were 3-dimensional and in space, why not just use a tetrahedron :)

wow.

/me can't think of anything else to say.

erm... yeah, WOW! (for more see: http://cpga.vendettaweb.net/wow.htm)

/me can't wait!

Keep working nice and hard devs!

WOW!...

Now I have to bust A.. to get the new sectormapping system into place for Vendetta Cartography.

I'm gonna move towards and tiny over all map of the universe with 30 seeds and you will be able to click a seed to see that section of space close up.

/me drools also

MorbidlyWrong[VC]

Very Nice!

Will there be any type of reset with this? Or will you use the current factions/standings and transpose them on to the new universe?

The best way of describing it is that "solar systems" will be made up of groups of "sectors". You'll be able to move between "sectors" within a given solar system by a short-range transportation system that amounts to something like the dev-only teleportation that's been used in the Test for some time. It'll have a countdown, and then it'll jump you to the desired sector. There are some other factors involved, which I won't detail yet.

Faction reset depends on how much the faction system gets changed around. Not sure if we'll do one or not, as of yet.

"other factors" == fuel?