nah you dont understood what i had in mind sorry english is not my first language.

imagine 1 "gravity well" as what its called around planet. why in that field we have planet instead of system (each well would be a system)

i know it would force huge changes in whole game thats why im askin

thats not an argument - it has nothing to do with reality (phase lines?)

it rather an estetic thingy i would rather raid systems than single planets like in other 4x games for instance pax imperia.

in pax you were creating "galaxy" by entering number of stars and what was around these was generated randomly.

you get my point?

i just wana know why they decided to go with planets instead of systems as battlefields

Well, If the devs make it possible to add moons to planets then through modding we could be able to change planet meshes into stars and add moons as normal planets. Visually I think that's good for some mods like Star Wars for example.

There would be a few problems though: the new "stars" would have all the planets attributes and things like that. It wouldn't make much sense I think. (Populated stars? lol...) But who knows, It might be easy to mod.

Anyway, I agree that It's for the best that Sins deals with a smaller scale, and the concept we have now, although not too realistic ( # of planets and such) benefits gameplay.

well you could point out that star is populated as statistic but in fact it would be the planets that circle around it.

Sure, why not?

But then you would have to bomb the star and colonize it too... wouldn't you?

well colonizing a star thats not that bad but bombing yeah i agree.

if it would be easy i would not ask. i just wana know if it was made by design(planets) or just to simplify it coz of lack of time.

i know its not a fully 4x - its made purely for multiplayer and some simplfying was required also research was build for rts type of game not 4x. imagine sins as pure 4x wich happens in real time not turns,

that would be GOLDEN game for me.

im not criticising (spelling?) i just wana ask when IC made a turn to make this game simpler (becose i bet they wanted to make it more like what i said (geez i hope)

i didnt buy or peworder yet - im a practical man ... i dont buy 1 day games like call of duty 4 or crysis - when i buy a game i want ot to least ateast as long as counter strike did.

im not a lover of fps or any rts wich makes you claustrophobic .

after SC (supreme commander) all of old school games was too "small"

im just a turtling guy who dosnt like to much brain fatigue

hope you guys score with sins coz i love space games and i never have enough of em


p.s.
sorry i was drunk when i wrote it

thx Kryo

Well, nothing stopping a person from making a custom map where you have a planet (that functions as normal), a MUCH larger gravity well, and a 3d star model off to the side (in the same gravity well).

This way, the planets are what are hooked up to each other, and the stars are just in the same gravity wells for looks/feel.

I am fairly sure that EvilleJedi's Star Wars mod for this game will use this kind of custom map.

I also found it a bit too unrealistic to have a map with 5 star systems and over 100 planets, but that problem can readily be solved via the custom map editor, as was already said. In fact, I already made a custom map with 25 star systems, each having anywhere from 1-12 stellar bodies. So far its working as intended, though I think the "development" phase on such a map will be quite long (as opposed to "early encounters" more compact distribution of planets entails).
But, as an old fan of 4X games like Master of Orion, I just have to have lots of star systems. Eventually I hope to play on a custom designed 50+ star map with epic, months-long campaigns, just like the good old days...