Load Screens

rathelm

Anyone know why there's load screens between the sectors? They're not that big and really don't have much data, a few stars here and there. It seems like that sectors should just blend together. As of now if you're slip stream is fast enough you can traverse a sector before the timer is up. Seems silly.

shockwave85

Because it's a map transfer, and any time you transfer to a new map you get a load. Remember, you don't load in just the environment, but also every other player on that map.

There's been talk about sector space eventually becoming one big, open map that loads on the fly as you move around (like any open world game), but it would apparently require major work to actually do.