Or, just lack of interest in using terms or measurements that resemble reality in any way at all. If someone cared, they might've figured out a slightly more accurate unit of measurement, without having any effect at all on gameplay.
And slightly more accurate would be right. The scale is terminally off, given that even a medium sized planet should be on the order of 6000 times the size of your ship..
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Maybe if we bug Aaron enough we can get him to make the scale string moddable - instead of " km" or " ls" it could be ",000 km" like in SFC, or whatever you want it to be...
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