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On the MSX disk version of Elite https://thefoggiest.dev/2024/05/13/msx-elite Not that much in the article that is specific to the MSX version, but some interesitng points: On cloaking devices: cloaking devices are often misused in science fiction. When a ship is cloaked, it is invisible, which mean...

"China's Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made
The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01223-0

Generating the Jupyter pattern / flowfields (youtube demonstration at bottom of page)
https://emildziewanowski.com/flowfields/

I doubt anyone will take time and read the code dump you did, and it's not clear what the current status in master is that you want to change, nor what the aim is beyond "make it better" / population depend on colony age? And another system, Epsilon Eridani: 1. My version, population of 11...

so you'll be more likely to see Megaloposis's of millions on older colony worlds, as opposed to the frontier, where you will see plenty of fresh encampments, 1. Granted. As long as not zero probability for big cities on the frotiner. There can still be new cities that grow explosively, due to being...

"Ugly avatar generator":
https://txstc55.github.io/ugly-avatar/

...or custom BBS adverts: "I need chocolate!!!", "Someone get me out of this place!"

Maybe these structures have a market with high demand of consumer goods, like food, but zero production, so player could go there and sell grain. They wouldn't have a ship market, no police, no BBS.

Update 2024-02-06:

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This was cool:

"Relativistic spaceship"
https://dmytry.github.io/space

(Hacker news discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266396 )

EDIT: Source code here: https://github.com/Dmytry/space