19th March 2005, 3:07 PM
While in NORMAL situations I'd point out that level data takes up an infintesible part of a game when compaired to the things that the disks are actually needed for, the textures, sounds, and stuff like that.
However, a galaxy is literally bigger than you can imagine. Seriously, humans don't have as many BRAIN CELLS as there are stars in the Milky Way, so we just can't fully grasp it's utter bigness. Just as an example, it's physically impossible for any aliens to have ever visited us, or even know we are here from our broadcasts, and by the reverse, SETA can only find broadcasts from aliens who have been able to send radio waves for billions of years themselves so it can actually reach us. Heck, the nearest star is something that we can only say what it looked like 4 years ago, and that's when looking RIGHT at it. Imagine the sheer time lag between the close stars and the far ones. Yeah, I bet your brain just broke.
Point is, even the map data for that would be pretty freaking huge, if they actually let you go through an entire real galaxy. Not without some shortcuts and generalizations anyway... They'd need to recycle a lot.
However, a galaxy is literally bigger than you can imagine. Seriously, humans don't have as many BRAIN CELLS as there are stars in the Milky Way, so we just can't fully grasp it's utter bigness. Just as an example, it's physically impossible for any aliens to have ever visited us, or even know we are here from our broadcasts, and by the reverse, SETA can only find broadcasts from aliens who have been able to send radio waves for billions of years themselves so it can actually reach us. Heck, the nearest star is something that we can only say what it looked like 4 years ago, and that's when looking RIGHT at it. Imagine the sheer time lag between the close stars and the far ones. Yeah, I bet your brain just broke.
Point is, even the map data for that would be pretty freaking huge, if they actually let you go through an entire real galaxy. Not without some shortcuts and generalizations anyway... They'd need to recycle a lot.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)