Density of alien species

[hhyyrylainen]

I think we need to first consider how big a Thrive galaxy is. I didn’t find the one discussion I think there was on this, but I found an old comment of mine:

Empty Space

I’ve said this like 3 times already, but even a single realistically sized galaxy is very likely to be much more than we can simulate. So while we could split the computation power over multiple galaxies with fewer star systems, I don’t really see the point as Thrive would be more realistic if we had just a single galaxy that tries to be closer to real size.

So with a small galaxy, it needs to be pretty packed in terms of how often you find other life to be interesting.