map editor - double system

geoschmo · #1 March 4th, 2004, 08:00 PM

Thank you Fyron for restating what Bearclaw said, but my question was whether we could see it.

Spoo · #2 March 4th, 2004, 09:15 PM

That's a pretty slick idea, Bearclaw. Can ships automatically make their way through the nebula maze once you've found the path?

Fyron · #3 March 4th, 2004, 09:21 PM

Ok, I made you a map: maps.zip

Well, 2 maps, one before I stacked the nebulae on top of each other, one afterwards.There are just 3 nebulae and a system out of the cluster on each side, but it illustrates the concept.

Fyron · #4 March 4th, 2004, 09:22 PM

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Originally posted by Spoo:
That's a pretty slick idea, Bearclaw. Can ships automatically make their way through the nebula maze once you've found the path?

Assuming you do not have a huge number of warp points interconnecting the 6 nebulae systems, they should be able to. It all depends on how complex the WP paths can be. Too many choices leaves the AI confused and unable to find a path.

bearclaw · #5 March 5th, 2004, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Bearclaw, I am having trouble visualizing what you are talking about here. Can you post this map so we can look at it? You can put it in the PBW file library if you like.

I'd be glad to. The only differance I had in mine, from Fyron's, was that each nebula looks idendical. And has 4 warp points that would go back and forth.

PvK · #6 March 5th, 2004, 02:36 AM

So with two systems at the same location, only one of the is accessible via the quadrant map, right? So you have to use a different interface such as the planet list to bring up a view of the other quadrants? Eeg.

PvK

bearclaw · #7 March 5th, 2004, 02:42 AM

This is the link to the example map I did.
http://seiv.pbw.cc/Download/filelib/946/maze.zip

The issue of double systems is redundant now with 1.91. It will not allow overlapping systems. I'm not sure about other patchs though.

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Originally posted by PvK:
So with two systems at the same location, only one of the is accessible via the quadrant map, right? So you have to use a different interface such as the planet list to bring up a view of the other quadrants? Eeg.

PvK

yes, you would have to use the planets to find the underlying systems.

With 1.91, what I've done is simply placed the systems side-by-side. It's not as surprising to find out that you are not in an ordinary nebula, but it does have a realisic effect in that you can see just how large a nebula might be.

[ March 05, 2004, 00:45: Message edited by: bearclaw ]