Current Development

The star map now shows colonies in all star systems that are discovered. Previously, only colonies in scan range of ships and colonies were shown.
The change was needed to give permanent information about other nearby players.

The implementation is not yet time sensitive. One will always get the current colony data.
A better way to solve this will be to enhance the Fog of War data structure, and include the discovered colonies there. Then you will see the colony data of the last time you had the solar system in your scan range..

The "Explore" part of Empires in Space needs improvement, since there are no great gains in discovering new worlds and players. I am preparing a small in-game event to make exploration more fun.

In preparation for that event, the cargo space of the scout vessel was reduced to 2. From now on, a ship with a cargo module is needed to transport bigger amounts of goods.