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Another interesting noise based erosion method. Sans simulation, so it might be applicable to our case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V21_uUK8Y

The trust issue is already solved by having an acceleration cap for each ship and direction. Partially due to structural limits, partially due to human tolerances. Sure, you can overload your ship a bit, but most of them are set up in a way that you can still produce 1.5 gee-ish up acceleration. And...

Out intent is not to make a modernized Frontier clone, and wasn't for a while now. But to make a good space game, while not forgeting our Frontier roots. The equipment issues are due to the whole thing being in a transitional state, and the aim is that you can use the cabin space for additional purp...

You mean the orbital/system map, right? I agree, it would be useful to have a center button there.
The sector map already has this functionality (C)

I drop this here as well, might be interesting:
Hesiod, a node based terrain generator.

This one looks interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y19Mw5YsgjI
An overview of how Townscaper and some others work.
Part procedural, part hand-made generators.

From lore perspective: how about stations always upload and exchange bounties with all ship computers (in the same vein all ships carry spacenet data packets for an asyncronous internet between systems)? And if it is an inhabited system, then there's a bounty database the computer can access any tim...

Also I would humbly like to point out how asset intensive that approach would be

That is on my radar, to build more lore and hand-made systems, with a smaller, more elaborate bubble.
There's also a pirate system in the works. Hopefully it will eventually gain gameplay aspects too.
So yeah, we are on the same page with this, it just takes some time to get there.

Takeoff without clearance fines might be limiting, because some ships require crew, so then there should be some guarantee that you can hire them everywhere. In Frontier Inhad to sit years on the pad to collect enough crew for the Panther Clipper for example.