More planets would mean more activity and inter planetary trade. But that could be said for any rich system, even one without planets but just a few huge stations.
At least, that's my guess.

Planets are very common though. So a 3:1 ration seems small to me. I'm in favor of having large differences between systems in regards to the amount of planets, usable planets, moons and other resources like asteroids.

That just shows we have good taste.

You made me salivate excessively.

I'm sure you can make some conclusions if you notice that this is a trend. If everyone is driving an old porsche, or everyone is driving a new toyota... It carries a meaning.

The same way you learn to recognize a porsche from a yaris. You observe and learn to see how ships behave differently. A scan would probably be in order to get a real clue about this specifically. But even then, when you scan a system you'll see research centres and factories. So there's that already.

Technology would be a point though. Research and production require money. So an area with a lot of well equipped ships would be doing well.

property values :lol: That's an apt observation. :D A neighbourhood that's looking abandoned, low property values would have more criminality (in the open) than a so called good neighbourhood. When you say to yourself "I don't want to go through there at night", then there are visual reasons for it...

Awesome! *tunes in*
Which reminds me I still need to continue listening to last week's episode. I need to time listening with some non-attention-needing tasks or half is lost on me.

I'm hoping for the transformation of the widget into a fully functional ship/station construction tool.

And now and then a voice "Master, we require your assistance."

Cornflakes_91 wrote:How could we effectively calculate the civilised/fear/security/whatever value?
Preferrably without using "magic" knowledge we actually shouldnt have in-game

How do you do it in real life?

most interesting story of tales

Cornflakes_91 wrote:then call it "danger" instead of fear.
Amounts to approximately the same.

If that's the only remark you have about my post, this discussion won't stay "interesting" for long.

because we never have actually established how an AI determines how dangerous an area is, we just assumed that it can and does I would imagine it does that the same way as we do it. When planning ahead, we're aware of a danger in a certain area we need to pass through. We start to feel uncomfortabl...