Size of a system

[looqas]

Most probably everyone has noticed that some systems are bigger than others. And some feel huge, but that's just a perception of it, for example New York is vast, but feels quite ok because it's full of stuff. Whereas the notorious Omega-47 or Newcastle seem very big. Even tradelanes do not save Newcastle IMO.

What's this gotta to do with anything? First I, for one, like to avoid systems that I don't like. And one quite big factor is the size of the system (or rather the perception how big it feels) in deciding if I like it or not. I just don't whoop for joy when I have to travel distances of over 50k be that in cruise or over the tradelanes. Conversely I like objects being spaced so that you can interdict someone if you want (Chugoku anyone?)

On the other hand some systems feel tiny. Like Omega-7. You get to places too quickly. I personally need time and space to prepare myself for eventualities (RPing, docking, taking care of things) and I just get irritated that those travel times are so short. Everything seems to blow up into your face too quickly.

Personally I like them medium sized, Dresden, New Berlin, Manchester, New London. While the absolute size of the system might be bigger or smaller in my examples the distances between the objects of interest are spaced nicely. So they all feel medium to me. It has more to do with overall feel of the place than the actual size of the system.

My opinion of a good system is it to have 3-4 bases spaced about 31k-40k apart from each other. The spacing can be a bit bigger if there're TLs in it and a little less if there are just holes.

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