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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Well of course your random generator produces a huge number of tidelocked worlds with much higher average temperatures than the by the book world generation technique.
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Why? It's a pretty damn faithful implementation.
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The average temperature is roughly the seasonal average at a latitude of 45 degrees. Obviously it will be colder on average as you approach the poles and warmer as you get closer to the equator. But in the case of a tidelocked worlc that will actually be a roughly circular band of tolerable temperature all around the sun-side.
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Ah. I thought you were talking about people living on tide-locked worlds, because that was the topic. Referring to the geography of a normally-rotating world was rather confusing in context. So you were saying that people live in the mid-latitudes rather than at the east pole. What's the east pole on a normally-rotating planet?
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Why would the intersection of the equator and the terminator be east of the subsolar point?
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There's got to be one such intersection to the east and the other to the west.