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TOO MANY SYSTEMS SPOIL THE LIST

by Hazed

With new planets being added all the time, including two this week, the list of systems has been getting longer and longer. Typing 'DI SYSTEMS' meant an even more unwieldy list scrolling onto your screen, until suddenly, with the latest additions, something snapped - and the list became too long to be sent in one burst which meant the final few entries were being lopped off the bottom of the list. Hard luck for the Yarl and Zerahl systems!

In one way, this is a temporary problem because once we have duchies, there won't be a need for a complete list of all the systems in the game - instead you will get a list of all the duchies, and then be able to display each duchy for the details of the systems therein. But duchies are not likely to appear any time soon, so a stopgap solution had to be found.

Bella's response has been to change the way the information is displayed so that each system now only takes up one line rather than two. Previously, the information said:

Rigel system:
Rigel 4 - Owner Pugwash Economy: Agricultural/Workforce: 1000

whereas now it says:

Rigel system: Rigel 4 - Pugwash - Agricultural/1000 workers

That should hold things for a while!

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