More planet sizes

[HP Delron]

I just tried it. It works to a degree, however i was mistaken. the "Stellar Size" is not what appears in the planet name box it is the acutal Planet Size name. Althought this does not make it Imposssible to do the mod it makes it a alot harder. Beacuse now you would haev to make the planet name.

Tiny(Tons of spaces)type2. Beacuse after a certian amout of charaters the name gets cut off. that way it would still look like plain "Tiny" but they would be slighty different. Mabey i will make this mod.

Is anybody intrested in something like this? If so ill make it. But if not im to lazy just to make for myself.

So please people tell me would you like this mod, ia m thinking about 50 different planet sizes 10 variences for each current type. In other words 10 different "tinys" 10 different "smalls" etc.

[Suicide Junkie]

Throw in some micro-style moons, generate a map with them, and check the galaxy for null planets.
There should be at least 10 per large galaxy. (Use ancient race, and scroll down the list of planets)

You won't get any overt error Messages, and those null-planets are invisible. (null picture)

[ 21 February 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]

[jimbob]

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]

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]

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

[Suicide Junkie]

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]

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.