One option would be to only place habitable worlds around a tiny fraction of stars, and calibrate that number such that there are about 11000 systems in the sphere surrounding Capital with a radius of 129.5 parsecs. That has the side effect of making the frontier much larger - the whole surface area of the sphere rather than the arc length of the 2d circle.
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-------- Original Message --------
 On January 28, 2018 10:56 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

>On 1/29/2018 1:35 AM, Caleuche wrote:
>>I'm sure an Imperium could be retrofitted onto 3d space yet keep the
>> concept of remote government, but that would be throwing out several
>> decades worth of material. I do like 3d space for gameplay reasons,
>> you can plot a local sky map from any point and note important stars
>> and how they appear in a random sky and given the random tilts that
>> the various ecliptic planes that we know of have it feels like it fits
>> spaceflight a bit more if you're not always immediately heading away
>> from your launch point in the same plane.
>>
> I'm not sure how you could translate the 3I into a 3d format and retain
> the key requirement of long travel times from the Capital to the
> frontier without completely changing the entire travel time mechanic. 
> Then you get into the issue that there are so many potential systems
> within 50 parsecs (~160 light years) that there is almost no reason to
> travel any farther except for wanderlust.
>
>>I mentioned in an earlier thread, but with Traveller 5 rules at least,
>> Jumpspace and realspace are 1:1 mapped to each other, at least by
>> implication, as you can travel between stars slower than light and
>> there's no indication that the distances should be treated differently
>> than they appear on the sector maps.
>>
>
> That is the way it has been since day 1.
>
>
>
>Kurt Feltenberger
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