Make Galaxy as alive than world of Endless Legend

I feel the galaxy is a very dead place, not very enjoyable to explore because it's empty, and not many things to do.

This is a decrease of gameplay since the wonderfull Endless Legend world.

So what I propose here is not a easy task, but there is time before release, even for strong improvements.

How to make galaxy alive and interesting to explore ?

Easy, there is a model of excellence with Endless Legend world. So just follow this pathway.

Actualy, Galaxy get 2 categorys of elements :

- Solar system to colonize

- Big cosmics naturals like black hole, asteroid, where there is nothing to do, except being in influence zone for getting bonus.

So keep it like this, but add this :

Mini-Nodes !

When going from a point A to a point B, travel can be long. 

Instead, add a world of Mini-node everywhere.

Each traveling line get many mini-nodes. Even, you can have a pathway of mini-nodes fully independant. Not only relying big elements, but just going to anothers mini-nodes.

Some mini-node network could be hidden (unless you get a travel technology). And some mini-node could be out of any network (need to travel in deep space for reaching it).

What are the mini-nodes ?

- can't be colonized.

- a cosmic elements like : mini black-hole, gas nebula, asteroids, red giant star, neutron star, comets orbits, neutral star station, bussiness area, etc...

- a zone where movement speed can change (slower in asteroids, fastest near mini-black hole). Like terrain type in endless legend.

- a zone where you can send probes for more loot, or for finding a QUEST.

- a zone where you can meet some personnalities, or workshops, or guys from minor factions or others species.

- a zone where something unexpected happens, or an event occur, asking you for example to stop a nova reaction.

- a zone where you can fight some space monsters. (and win XP).

- a zone where you can build maybe a special ship and orbiting here for winning something.

- a zone with graphics/visuals spreading out in space, making a more living galaxy.

And more about visuals :

- some globals events should be anticipated or seen in galaxy. Like weather in Endless Legend.

- Show 3d ships models in galaxy instead of a colored vertex, then add a colored symbol for faction.

Update of this Idea - Faisability :

As I was thinking about faisability of this, I think even dev team can't make a mini-node system (I suppose it could break a lot of features already made), it's still an idea that could be apply as the game already is.

I explain how.

Use the actual node system, but change totaly how to use it :

Make many more nodes, and make very shorts node-lines. This will build a galaxy looking like a very dense network.

Then, change proportion of each elements :

- In this example, it's a galaxy with 2x more nodes, and each line lengh between nodes is divided by 2, if you compare it with what provide actual galaxy generator.

- There is same number of colonizables system than before, for a galaxy of this size. So approximatively it should make 4/10 nodes = Colonisable system (or minor faction system).

- There is same number of big elements to conquer with influence, so it should make : 2/10 nodes = Big elements (be careful to not stick big elements just near colonizable systems).

- There is then 4/10 "specials nodes". These specials nodes are like I described before in mini-nodes, and get same property about movements or features. So not colonizable, but full of many adventures and places to explore.

I try to make your life easier, dev team ! ;-)

But it make still a lot of new objects/class to implement, because this is new node types.