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Besides, the existing world-building sequence is 72 pages. You wouldn't get an improved version into an issue of Pyramid even with minimal explanation. And its the explanation that readers would really want. System generation is sufficiently complicated and easily so tedious that actually executing the steps is definitely work for machines.
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03-15-2013, 10:29 PM | #132 |
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The discussion in this thread seems to indicate that you're better-qualified than some, but I'll let that rest.
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SJ Games likes its publications on technical topics to be written by qualified experts, or at least to have qualified experts on the writing team. I may be better informed on planetology than the usual dilettante, but dilettante is all I am. I impress laymen and exasperate experts.
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03-16-2013, 12:37 AM | #134 | |
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03-16-2013, 02:09 AM | #135 |
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No? Well, I guess that being a good and reliable writer and easy to work with is an acceptable substitute for formal qualifications. I'm not any of those things, and besides I don't want to design a pencil-and-dice star system generator. For one thing I don't feel sufficiently confident of my own expertise.
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However, it would be quite a lot of work to design a star system generator, and it serves a very niche market.... |
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A series of rudimentary hacks. I'm particularly dissatisfied with me handling or temperature, which would be much better if I modelled meridional transport of heat and then used geometrical expressions for how much of the planet is warmer than 30C or cooler than 0C. They would have given me windiness/storminess too. But I got cold feet about the effects of planet size, atmospheric mass, and rotation.
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And as much as I able able and willing to work, I am working on something else. SJ Games doesn't want to publish it (it's on the anti-wish list), and they don't want to work with unreliable writers with obscure and elliptical styles like me. But a new dice-and-pencils star system generator would both be unpublishable and not satisfy my creative urges. I have lately been driven by the flapping sound and rumbling wheels of a certain chariot to dynamite the logjam of things I ought to be working on. The starsystem generator is one of the casualties. It isn't going to come about, because what I have is good enough for what I have to do.
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On a side note, if I'm lucky, I'll have about another... 3 days before I can get a test build up. The orbital mechanics are the problem (placing orbits) but I'm working on a way to do that. I think.
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03-17-2013, 10:34 AM | #139 | |
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This strikes me as odd. 1/1000 to 1/4000 > 1/10000. Our system's gas giant moons are the only gas giant moons who existence is even confirmed so far. If our system varies from 1/1000 to 1/4000, what could they possibly be basing that general rule for gas giant moons in the universe at large on anyway? |
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