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Originally Posted by Anthony
Are you using something standard for generating this information?
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Bits of it are extracted from the Extended Hipparcos Catalogue, others are generated by an increasingly heavily-modified version of the GURPS Space advanced star system generation sequence. But basically no.
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Astronomy
It's fairly significant how axial tilt interacts with orbital eccentricity, and that information is missing.
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Climate
Visible Illumination is a fairly useless level of detail
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It's important to agricultural productivity. Also, though illumination 47% as bright as sunlight on Shamballa is not noticeably dim, PCs probably want their Ray-Bans on Ardour, where the light is 180% as bright as on Earth.
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Oceans
Might be nice to know percentage of area that's relatively shallow (continental shelf, etc).
Atmosphere
Percentages of top gases?
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Eh. If it were trivial to calculate, yes. But I'd have to come up with a method of randomly generating more detail. I think that the case is stronger for the boiling point of water at sea level and the scale height of the atmosphere.
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Economy
I assume you're using 'Real GDP' instead of PPP for some reason?
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Purchasing Power Parity is a basis on which to make a comparison, it is not the value compared. GDP at PPP is real GDP. GDP/head at PPP is real GDP/head. The wage rate at PPP is the real wage rate.
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Government
It's nice to have enough information to run a political plot, which means you need to know some details about lawmaking and succession.
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I cover succession. More detail, perhaps.
I'll put it back when I can come up with a meaningful scale and a way of generating the content that is consistent with the development-level. This may involve generating a number of hidden economic problems using the development level and the Anna Karenina Principle. Corruption is second only to recent war-fighting in the country for producing economic underdevelopment.
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Law and Enforcement
People tend to be quite interested in what is illegal.
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