No moons, please.

[Litcube]

Is there a mod that can get rid of the creation of moons? It's annoying to have to click until I get my planet. Can I turn this off?

[Paul1980au]

Perhaps you should colonize them - or someone might be able to mod the map creation files to only create planets ?

[PvK]

It's pretty straightforward to mod (I think it's just to edit SystemTypes.txt and change all the planets with location "same as #"), but I don't know that anyone's posted such a mod.

PvK

[Fyron]

There is no mod that does so to my knowledge, but it is easy enough to mod them out of SE4. Open up the SystemTypes.txt file and remove all entries that are planets and have the placement type of "same as X." That is what makes them moons. Of course, I strongly urge that you do not modify your stock data and instead create a mod folder to modify.

Edit:
Beat me by a second or two.

[ January 27, 2004, 02:06: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Litcube:
Is there a mod that can get rid of the creation of moons? It's annoying to have to click until I get my planet. Can I turn this off?

There is no mod that I'm aware of that does this.

You could create your own simple mod by deleting the moons from the SystemTypes.txt file. Moons are positioned using the "Same As X" entry for position. X represents the object number in the file where the moon will share the same position. If you make this to "any" in all cases where it appears, it should work ok.

code:

---

Obj 13 Physical Type      := Planet

Obj 13 Position           := Same As 3

Obj 13 Stellar Abil Type  := Normal Planet

Obj 13 Size               := Tiny

Obj 13 Atmosphere         := None

Obj 13 Composition        := Any

---

[Captain Kwok]

I guess everyone was in a hurry to answer this question!

[Paul1980au]

Yes i prefer the moons - i can see others who dont however, id like planets with 5-10 moons at times - the most ive had generated normally is 4 maximum.

It has an interesting effect on gameplay makes it more varied what about planet / asteroid system set up ie 1 planet, 1 moon and 1 asteroid belt ! would allow planet side resource gathering, ship yards and so forth on the moon and extra resource generation in a safe area with defense sats along with mining sats. Might be an idea for those creating game maps for PBW and scenrio options.

[Litcube]

Sweet action.

Is there a race to answer dumb newbie questions? I've seen you guys compare times in my other dumb newbie threads.

[Fyron]

Well it does not really help much to have 3-4 people posting the same exact info in a row. This did not quite happen here, but it does happen a lot.

[Suicide Junkie]

There used to be...
During the heyday of newbie question rushes, answers were guaranteed in 30 minutes or its free.

To actually get the first answer in, you had to be a quick typer, and have a sharp eye to spot the new questions. Six minutes was common.