Orbital Colonies

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Puke:
so if tiny sized planets are 1 on the planet creation ability, what happens if you want to make something smaller than that? you could create a smaller planet size, but i think the component would always try to make small planets. you would have to set the asteroid size smaller too.. so you would have to make sure all asteroids were of that same smaller size. then of course, regular planet creation would not work.. but im not worried about that.

When you make the new make the new smaller than tiny planet size it becomes size 1. You have to bump all the exsisting planet creators up one. Then your new astro comp can make any asteroid field into the new micro size planet, but the other comps make planets from tiny on up. You don't need special asteroids.

Actually, the concern I had was that the game would sprinkle these new teensy planets all over the place at game startup . And this is true, however since we only need to add one entry to the sectortypes file they wouldn't be placed very often. Much less than other planets.

Geoschmo