Here's the deal: Our skill in programming is pretty much limited to Visual Basic Database manipulation. Static graphics are not a problem, and neither are renders (just look at this original background, and the mini-movie at the top of the Pocket Empires page).
But making a piece of code display something BESIDES text on a screen...That's stretching. Don't get the wrong impression; We CAN do it. there have been a few low-level attempts at figuring this stuff out, some of them modestly successful; but most of our concentration has gone to area's of specialty, like maintaining player files / order / data security, making sure the server understands a players orders and processing those orders properly, and returning sensible result data to the player. We've also been spending a lot of time on making sure the scalability of this thing is MAXED. That's why we should now be able to handle 100+ players, each with their own 1 to 100+ world empire, all interacting within the same game galaxy. We've even been testing out the possibility of making lesser nobility or being another players lieutenant a possible option of players.
To cut this short, we've been looking for code that we can beg, borrow, or steal that will display a sector/subsector/system map on screen, from the data in a file. If you know of a available visual basic code to do this, or wood be willing to write a piece of code that would do this, let us know. Please.
In the mean time, we will be looking at learning graphics.
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