thats what the official star wars guide book says.. maby i counted wrong lol We will see, when the map is done

That SinsPLus mod may help by adding more planet styles for you to choose, and makeing Gas planets colonizable.

170 planets??? I though there were thousands of solar systems.

Anyway, 170 planets is enough and, coupled with a good star wars mod, it would be awesome.

One question though, it would be 170 planets, but how many stars, and how many planets per star?

The Star Wars Galaxy is made up of "regions" (Listed in main post) each region has one star. However, the Unknown Regions will have more then 1 star, so it should add up to 8 or more stars all together and more then 200 planets. Sadly my starwars guide does not say what these unknown regions include (thats why they are called unknown lol) so i would have to make something up for them. You can also give me some Ideas and suggestions.

The map will not include all 1000 planets. Just the ones that have been named. Wes992 is right, it would cause a FPS of 5

I am a fast worker, but with all those different planets and of course all the testing I have to do... 2 - 3 weeks.

But I will post some screens and maby videos for a little preview

And I have a question for you guys: Should the Star wars galaxy include Pirate bases ? I mean its Star Wars and I dont think pirates exist, but I want to make shure.

Black Sun Pirates,Rogue Corsec and Pirate Mercs are all pirates that have been included in the SW galaxy,but Gabal is right these pirates wouldnt work with sins.

This is how the map would look like, but I am going to add more stars for ech region

http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2007/images/widescreen_wallpaper_2/map.jpg

I already started making wookie noises while playing to get ready for this.

google star wars galaxy maps... there are numerous maps available. I was actually in the process (Very early) of making a larger galaxy map as well, including ship graveyards, random asteroids, etc. which would show up only a certain % of the time, so the map had some changes to it each time it was played....

Some of the maps have more than 170 planets.

How are you working the layout of the stars since the outer rim, for example, completely surrounds the core and it is basically like the rings of a target?

There is WAY More than 170... I made a galaxy map for a conquest version of Starship Battles, and I had 107 systems on there without even trying hard. I'd say there are twice that many planets on the galaxy map I found on google, if not three times as many.

i'll post the stats from the star war wiki:

The galaxy was one of the billions of galaxies that existed in the universe. This galaxy was particularly important since it was the setting of the histories of the Galactic Republic, the Galactic Civil War, the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Jedi and the Sith.

Judging from the maps available, it appeared to be a galaxy of Sb type. According to some sources, the galaxy was 120,000 light years across, or 37,000 Parsecs (a parsec is 3.258 light years) across. A black hole existed at the center of the galaxy.

There were approximately 400 billion stars and around half of these had planets that could support life. 10% of those developed life, while sentient life developed in 1/1000 of those (about 20 million). The galaxy was populated by approximately 100 quadrillion different life forms.

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The exact number of planets in the Republic fluctuated, but in 21 BBY it was a little less than 1.3 million planets.