It’s been a while since we last updated this blog. Both Ju and I have been busy with other endeavours (work-related stuff, mostly) so we haven’t been able to work on Legacy Worlds as much as we’d have wanted to. Add this to the fact that the latest additions to the development wiki are mostly formulas, which are not something we’d want to publish.

But here we are. In the coming weeks, we are going to publish a few posts about the geography of the Beta 6 universe – mostly about the organisation of systems – and I will try to continue on the “Writing formulas” series. Speaking of that, my current “todo list” contains, well, mostly formulas that need to be written – distance computations (which is very boring, but almost finished), trading system, mining, corruption, influence and propaganda, happiness, population growth and migration… I am not looking forward to working on most of it, to be honest… but it has to be done.

Last but not least, I have kept on improving the planet pictures for Beta 6; at this stage, it looks like the ones I had uploaded to the current website for you to vote on are completely outdated. Since the new generator almost always manages to generate decent pictures, we might actually skip the voting part. Here are examples of the latest versions…