Hazeron Starship

[Rockinsince87]

Honestly think a combination of both Vooker's and Dean's ideas would be great.   It would satisfy those who want to see multiplayer continue in some form and keep server costs lower. 

Yeah that's the way to go. In addition I would like to see some control over the server/game universe would be nice. General admin tools/commands and the ability to specify how many active galaxies there are and more.

Right now, Hazeron Starship runs quite well. However once you dead-head to a galaxy core, your save file bloats quite a bit. Example, a test I did from sector 150,0,0 in the shores galaxy traveling to 0,0,0 bloated the save to about 500+ MB. This does not hurt performance while playing (from what I can see with my hardware). When you load the game up, it takes longer and longer to load everything. Not a huge issue at the moment but it could become a problem over time.

Hence one of the controls should be garbage collection frequency. Sectors you are traveling through should be dropped from the save after x amount of <time> by using discovery time stamp. If it has no flags or capitol present, then drop. By keeping a tight rein on compute resources, hardware costs can be much lower.