While this thread is incredibly....quiet. I'm still excited about this game. First, I'm learning a lot, second, while I already appreciated the artists and programmers I worked with, I'm becoming an acolyte of the amazing coding skills of people in this industry. Here's a little something:
The img reference WorldMap is really clever and it works. Here's a peek at world sizes. We're going to start with the 256k reference maps - 2+ weeks to cross at cruising speed for a Type VIIC.