Will the next update include more stars in Immense Galaxies?

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Here is a question that I've been trying to find an answer for and I never seem to get a great response other than it is more than gigantic.  When we first heard about the Immense Galaxy we were given the idea that there would be a galaxy larger than the gigantic galaxy filled with stars.

Now I don't know what the actual number limits are in stars generated in a metaverse Immense Galaxy but, it doesn't appear to be much more than a Gigantic map, just more spread out.  Now I know they had a lot of memory errors with more stars and more planets but, that was supose to have been fixed with the new planet textures using less memory so therefore we should get these caps bumped up a little right?

Well, that's just what I'd like to see, I can always creat my own map with 999 stars in my custom maps but, I can't play metaverse games with near that number stars.  It just would be nice to have a larger cap.  Thanks for all your hard work.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i ask a similar question to the devs before ToA was released. I ask them what is the max number of stars a custom map can have, and the answer i got back was 1000, meaning there are a max of 1000 solar systems. For each system, there are a max of 5 planets. In total, there are 5000 planets you can have for your custom map. I don't know about you, but 5000 planets is not little planet to manage.

In Lost Empire Immortals, a game similar to Galciv 2, the max number of stars they can have in a large galaxy is also 5000, meaning there are 5000 planets, and people on their forum are already noticing some manageable problems with so many planets to keep tabs on. In Lost Empire Immortals, morale is not an issue that needs to be addressed unline in Galiv 2.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I understand the cap and I'm fine with the cap for the custom maps but, the Immense Galaxy map for Metaverse is far from this cap. It'd be lucky if the map has half of that cap for Stars and not even close to a third of the habitable planets.
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