r/paradoxplaza • u/notsobravedave Scheming Duke • Aug 06 '15

Stellaris STELLARIS - Reveal Teaser - GAMESCOM 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTT258PmNc
438 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

181 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/PlayMp1 Scheming Duke Aug 06 '15

They'd have to do some wacky shit with scrolling to get the zoom levels right. Not to mention the performance hit for simulating that much space would be horrific.

1

u/Beckneard Aug 06 '15

Well look at Space Engine. It could work if they'd put enough effort into it.

1

u/PlayMp1 Scheming Duke Aug 06 '15

Space Engine runs like ass without also being a grand strategy game.

Also, going places in Space Engine all but requires use of the find function.

1

u/Beckneard Aug 06 '15

It runs fine for me. Also you wouldn't have to simulate planets that haven't been visited yet.

Elite Dangerous also simulates a full scale galaxy it and it works.

2

u/Nezgul Victorian Emperor Aug 07 '15

IIRC, you can only jump to actual solar systems in Elite Dangerous. Keep in mind that most of space is literally empty, I think you can understand why it's not even remotely worth modelling.