Need help with map editor

Captain Kwok · #1 June 12th, 2003, 06:24 PM

The map editor can and will produce errors, especially with mods, when the # of systems are too high and a galaxy setting other than mid-life is used.

TerranC · #2 June 13th, 2003, 04:06 AM

Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't do a thing.

but thanks to your ideas, I found the error!

The reason why the Map Editor couldn't add systems is because the Systemnames lists I used weren't alphabetized.

When I switched my un-alphabetized systemnames list that I use for all my mods with an alphabetized systemnames list from the Devnull Mod (The only one that succeeded in adding systems manually), the error was gone!

That leaves only one question:
Does anybody know a software that organizes words alphabetically?

[ June 13, 2003, 03:07: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Fyron · #3 June 13th, 2003, 04:22 AM

MS Word does that. Put them in a table, and sort it. Then take them out of the table.

Gryphin · #4 June 13th, 2003, 12:09 PM

Actualy you don't need to put them in a table at all. Word will sorth them with no more than a list. it will also sort tabbed collums.

Excell (and I expect most spread sheets will sort collums.

Databases will.

Raging Deadstar · #5 June 14th, 2003, 09:15 AM

I have this very same problem, unfortuantly I have a very large system names file and microsoft word won't alphabetically list them if there are two many, something about program limitations! Typical Microsoft, i don't mind windows but when it interferes with space empires they're on dangerous territory

Of course it could just be my computer