(01-16-2022, 03:30 AM)Yurk Embassy Wrote: I mean, CPU and server performance are important as well. I myself see absolutely no point of having an universe so huge it's never going to be explored to even 1% of its entire volume when these resources could actually be saved for better InGame performance. That's just a waste. Martianant made a thread a good three hours ago in which he presented accurate calculations to determine the approximate number of star systems in different galaxies and in the whole universe, based on the galaxies' size.
Just to get this misconception out of the way. The number of galaxies or size of said galaxies doesn't matter from a performance point of view. Hazeron only generate a solar system when it is visited for the first time, and if the solar system is left empty with no visitors for an extended period of time it is deleted and can be re-generated again later when revisited.
So server resource wise, only inhabited space matter. There might be a slight spike in server resource usage when a lot of exploration is going on, but it will automatically be cleaned up again after a while.