Hexbased Star Map Style Test

[bartmoss]

It's Traveller-ish, yes, but not the OTU. I am still trying to work out how to map a galactic empire en detail, while being reasonably plausible, and above all, playable. It's a very, very difficult thing to accomplish, and the more I work on it, the more I understand the design decisions behind the original Traveller setup.

At 5ly to the hex, and simply ignoring the z-Axis, I get a lot more than one system per hex. Even if I pick just some "convenient" and/or "famous" stars it's still quite crowded. I can reduce this to a star a hex by a lot of pruning, I guess, but then I still need bigger hexes or very small symbols and fonts, and then it gets hard to read on paper. If I pick bigger hexes, mapping larger territories will take a lot more paper.

This is what I mean:



Messy.