Asteroid Field Numbering

Fyron · #1 August 23rd, 2002, 10:32 PM

Did you know that the highest roman numeral assigned to an Asteroid Belt in a system (and I assume this applies to planets and such too) is XXX? After that, they are numbered 31, 32, 33, etc. Not that this is really of much use to anyone, but I thouhgt I'd let y'all know about it.

geoschmo · #2 August 23rd, 2002, 10:39 PM

Asteroid Belt XXX. Sounds like the system's red-light district to me.

Baron Munchausen · #3 August 23rd, 2002, 11:32 PM

The conVersion to Roman Numerals had to end somewhere or other. With components I think it's at XX (20). So 30 for system objects is quite a bit. I guess you can send a suggestion to MM to extend this limit but I wonder if he'll consider it worthwhile. Roman numerals would get quite unwieldy beyond 30, and not many people want more than 30 objects in a single system. Maybe planets and asteroid belts can be numbered seperately?

[ August 23, 2002, 22:33: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Fyron · #4 August 23rd, 2002, 11:51 PM

BM, planets and asteroids are numbered separately. Have you seen the number of asteroids in maps made with FQM? There are a lot of them.

Baron Munchausen · #5 August 24th, 2002, 01:33 AM

Ah... I had never looked at that closely. So what happens when a planet is created out of asteroids? Is it's number changed to go at the end of the planets in that system? And then vice versa, what happens to the number of the planet that gets smashed into asteroids?

Grandpa Kim · #6 August 24th, 2002, 05:20 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Ah... I had never looked at that closely. So what happens when a planet is created out of asteroids? Is it's number changed to go at the end of the planets in that system? And then vice versa, what happens to the number of the planet that gets smashed into asteroids?

I'm not sure about asteroids to planet, but planet to asteroids simply retains the same name. If the planet was Bryma I, the new asteroid field will be Bryma I.

Kim

Fyron · #7 August 24th, 2002, 06:52 AM

When you construct a planet, it's name has the next available roman numeral for the planets in the system.

Ed Kolis · #8 August 24th, 2002, 10:09 PM

Hmm, looks like Aaron is using an array of values for the Roman numerals instead of generating them on the fly from the rules of Roman numerals... A fun project might be to write a program to generate any Roman numeral... I think I'll try that, since I have a little knowledge of Delphi, and send it in and see what Aaron thinks... it would be cool to have some code that I'd written in SE4!