More planet sizes

jimbob · #1 February 21st, 2002, 10:02 PM

What does the "null-planet" do? I'm assuming that you cannot colonize it at all, but I could be wrong.

If it is just not colonizable, perhaps that is not so bad an error... but if it causes crashes when people try to colonize, then that would be a problem.

I know this is a long shot (without hard code changes) but could we change the error message from "null-planet" to "molten planet - uncolonizable" or some such thing?

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 21st, 2002, 11:27 PM

No, a typical null planet will appear in a star system, invisible to the eye, but selectable if you click the right sector.

IIRC,
Where a normal planet has:
Ice - Hydrogen
Size - Medium
Conditions - Mild
Value 25%/70%/1%

The null planet has:
-
Size -
Conditions -
Value 25%/70%/1%

They are usually quite rare, hence the need for the ancient race trait.

HP Delron · #3 February 21st, 2002, 11:33 PM

Could anyone answer my question? is anybody intrested a new planet sizes mod?

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 21st, 2002, 11:36 PM

Me.
I've already made some changes to the file in my mod, but it wouldn't be too hard to merge more changes in.

My only concern is whether it works, despite the crazy null-planets problem I had when I tried to do it myself.

Jourin · #5 February 22nd, 2002, 02:52 AM

I made a simple mod for Moons. Based on our solar system, most planets have moons of various sizes.

I put all the known moons in our solar system into various catagories. Made three differents sizes for Tiny and then used small and medium size plantets for moons. In fact in some systems the only colonizable 'planets' could be the Gas Giants moons.

For the three sizes of tiny, I used the same bit map picture, but the tiny moons could be different sizes.

Mod was posted for 1.49. I was planing on updating it once the Gold Version is released.

geoschmo · #6 February 22nd, 2002, 06:02 AM

SJ, Jsut out of curiosity about your Null planet problem. Were you specifiying the new planet sizes in your systemtypes.txt file?

Admiral had a planet size mod that had the same problems with null planets. We got it to work by removing any instance in the systemtypes file where it was specifying one of the new planet sizes. As long as we let it only use the new sizes for the "any size" planets it worked fine and we had no null planets. If you can confirm this it might be worth sending to malfador as a possible bug.

Geoschmo

Suicide Junkie · #7 February 22nd, 2002, 03:50 PM

Interesting theory.
I wanted to use those new types specifically as moons, and "any size" dosen't work that way

So, yes, I was specifying them explicitly.

If you're right, then I could use the tiny label for the micro moons, and space out the larger names, since it would be OK to randomly pick them...