Currents aren't the only way to travel between systems - it's the
difference between traveling cross-country via local roads or taking
the highway.
I might go with the flow map though, if only to get the general idea
before I try and map it to hexes.

On 11/12/17, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the currents are the only way to travel between systems, I'd tend to
> drop a hex graph entirely and just map the systems and currents as a
> directed graph. Nodes are systems, edges have travel time and so forth.
> Then you can draw it any way you like that preserves the topology.
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Amber Witherspoon
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (whoops, dropped part of the message)
>> So, does anybody have any ideas?
>> Travel time will be important, since I'm working on tables for the
>> interstellar travel that makes travel more than a passive "you didn't
>> misjump timeskip" that many people treat it as.
>>
>> On 11/12/17, Amber Witherspoon <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My brain attached itself to a "Spelljammer" type Traveller setting.
>> > For those who don't know, Spelljammer was an AD&D setting that
>> > connected all their settings via a fantastic cosmology based on
>> > crystal spheres that held systems and an ether like substance that
>> > flowed in currents between them.
>> > Right now, I'm looking at something similar - magical sailing ships
>> > traveling between systems on ether currents, with the ether currents
>> > stacked in layers that occasionally connect (thus allowing 3d space to
>> > be shown as a series of 2d maps).
>> > Right now, I'm trying to figure out a mapping system that allows for
>> > random generation of systems and currents that doesn't create a mess.
>> > Currently (hah!), I know I want systems on 8+, but the currents are a
>> > bit messy - I have three possibilities:
>> > 1: roll for currents first - direction of flow, length, and travel
>> > time, splits, if it goes between layers, then roll systems with
>> > off-current hexes having a penalty.
>> > 2: roll systems first, roll for current off each hex face, then
>> > length, travel time, splits, etc.
>> > 3: roll systems first, then connect every system (not sure my tables
>> > for that yet) with a current and roll travel time for each.
>> >
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