map editor questions

BeenAssimilated · #1 June 24th, 2003, 02:46 AM

Is there a way to give a player multiple specific starting planets?

If a starting location is placed over a sector with both a planet and a moon, which is selected to be the starting planet?

I'm new to the forums and apologize if these questions have already been answered elsewhere. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Baron Grazic · #2 June 24th, 2003, 04:02 AM

Welcome to the forums.

I just did some testing with Gold and I couldn't select multiple planet starts for the same player either.
It ignored any extra start planets and just built new planets in the same home system as the first assigned planet - strange...

I thought Gold would have looked at this issue.

One PBW Game I hosted (Pre-Gold), I used this to my advantage. You assign a Huge World as the Starting planet, and then in the game setup, select 3 Home Planets with 'Average' value. In effect this gives you the Huge World you assigned and 2 Medium Home Worlds, all in the same system.

Starting planets seems to take the largest planet in any given sector for the Home World, so it shouldn't assign a moon as the Home World.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 June 24th, 2003, 04:04 AM

welcome to the seiv forums.
we're really glad to have you here.
i'm sure you will prove a valuable addition here.
we'll be happy to assimalate you.
nice to meet you.
hi, i'm narf. how are you?
so, what do you think of the forums?
do you want some toast?

what do you think of seiv?
pleased to meet you.

no, i have no idea about which is picked. but ther'll be lots of reletivily 'sane' members around to answer your question. probably more than it needs, in greater detail than you wanted.
aww, someone got here before me.

[ June 24, 2003, 03:04: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

BeenAssimilated · #4 June 24th, 2003, 04:16 AM

Thanks alot guys! Now I'll finally get to do that Star Trek map I've been planning.

Looks like I'll be getting assimilated pretty quickly

Thanks for making me feel so at home.

tesco samoa · #5 June 24th, 2003, 04:17 AM

Hi. It would be determined by the game settings.

As the game would adjust the planet to fit the settings.

Or this is what I believe from my map making...

BeenAssimilated · #6 June 24th, 2003, 04:32 AM

Anyway, narf(French, right?), to answer your questions:

How am I?
Actually, I'm not sure. I'm more of a geek who spends WAY

too much oh Star Trek.

What do I think of the forums?
I've been reading occasionally for a while and just decided to join a few days ago. I'm surprised about devoted people are to this game. Atrocitie's Star Trek Mod looks fantastic. I've just read about Captain Kwok's great loss of his TNG Mod data

and am deeply saddened by it. I really hope that he will be able to recover his data. now I'm considering starting my abandoned Star Trek mod again.

Do I want some toast?
Uh, ok...

What do I think of SEIV?
It's a very good game!! I've been playing it for a long time and have had much fun with it!!! I'm really looking forward to all the mods out there.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 June 24th, 2003, 06:38 AM

no, it's pinky and the brain.

well, each time someone asks a question here, it generally gets more answers than i think some questions need, so i was thinking 'why not something different?'

you havn't seen red dwarf? that's horrible. it's a tv series, sci-fi comedy, see it the first chance you get. on it, for some of the episodes, is an intelligetn toaster with only one thing on it's mind, come rain, sleet, hail, asteriod storm, desperate space battle, medical emergency, space time distortion or anything..."do you want some toast?" "i can do bagels." "how about a biscut?"

Baron Grazic · #8 June 24th, 2003, 08:08 AM

do you want some toast? [Big Grin]

Boy you left that joke hidden in their. I completely missed it and love RedDwarf

BeenAssimilated · #9 June 24th, 2003, 11:17 PM

Thanks Arkcon.

Quote:

you havn't seen red dwarf? that's horrible. it's a tv series, sci-fi comedy, see it the first chance you get. on it, for some of the episodes, is an intelligetn toaster with only one thing on it's mind, come rain, sleet, hail, asteriod storm, desperate space battle, medical emergency, space time distortion or anything..."do you want some toast?" "i can do bagels." "how about a biscut?"

Never seen it. Is it an old TV show?

Arkcon · #10 June 25th, 2003, 01:05 AM

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Originally posted by BeenAssimilated:
Is there a way to give a player multiple specific starting planets?

Yeah, there is that option. If the game is set to "All player's planets the same size", then your carefully designed selections may be overridden.

Quote:

If a starting location is placed over a sector with both a planet and a moon, which is selected to be the starting planet?

You can't be sure of exactly what would happen, but the game would change that sector as it needs to.
Example:Hydrogen gas giant with tiny ice and tiny rock moon, selected as home planet for the Terrans, may end up with any of the 3 altered to suit.

If selected for the Eee, which are a Carbon Dioxide gas race, you'd just change the atmosphere of the gas giant and go, but the game isn't that smart, and will again change a random planet. Or erase the entire sector and just put the planet it needs.

[ June 24, 2003, 12:09: Message edited by: Arkcon ]