Re: Beating the 255 barrier
	
			 
             
			
		
		
		
		If the entire game was rewritten to use 256*256 = 65,538 systems, what would happen? 
 
A 300 KB savegame becomes a 90 Megabyte savegame. 
Just writing the savegame to disk each turn would take a significant amount of time.  Heaven forbid you from trying to download that from PBW each day, even on a high speed connection! 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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