On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:45:24 +0000, Bruce Johnson wrote:

>I liken it to the London Underground map which does not correlate to actual
>London real cartography. IIRC there are stations that are on opposite ends
>of the map, that are across the street in real space.

Well... Not quite that bad; there's a map that superimposes the Underground
map (including DLR, but not including Overground) on the actual geography
of London, and it does show that there are some significant distortions of
distances between station - in both directions; some stations are closer in
real life than TfL's map implies, and some are farther apart than implied.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=8a567ebac15748d39a747649a2e86cf4#!

There's a similar situation with the New York map, but it's not as extreme
as London. Mostly, NY makes Manhattan larger and the outer boroughs
smaller, and Staten Island, which only carries the SIR line, is in reality
almost the same size as the other four boroughs combined.

Alternate TU thoughts: Jump Drive is more like Alderson Drive, and that
star in the next hex over might actually be three jumps away, and with only
one Alderson point in the system - which might help explain why, even
though it's suitable for human habitation without having to go full-bore
domed colonies et cetera, it still only has a D port and only a couple of
million people on one continent. On the other hand, that subsector capital,
even though it's crap as a world, has nine Alderson points in the system
and is a sort of regional bottleneck - pretty much everything going more
than about four jumps within the subsector is going to have to stop
there...

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