Steve Jackson Games - Site Navigation
Home General Info Follow Us Search Illuminator Store Forums What's New Other Games Ogre GURPS Munchkin Our Games: Home

Go Back   Steve Jackson Games Forums > Roleplaying > GURPS

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old 07-25-2007, 01:39 PM   #6
balzacq
 
balzacq's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Seattle, Washington
Default Re: [Space] How habitable is my universe?

I have a PHP script to generate systems as per GURPS Space, with a very few minor tweaks (Agemegos' revised tidal formulae and aging the system in 0.1Gy blocks to track changes over stellar evolutionary timescales). I use the chart in G:S to generate stellar types instead of real-universe data. Also, I use all the rules except for brown dwarf and flare star generation.

I've generated a total of 16977 systems this way (I have a perl script that creates whole thousand-system sectors at once). The habitability breakdown is as follows:
Code:
Hab.   Systems    %
8  	136  	0.80
7 	300 	1.77
6 	257 	1.51
5 	338 	1.99
4 	303 	1.78
3 	180 	1.06
2 	105 	0.62
1 	28 	0.16
0 	15317 	90.22
NULL 	13 	0.08
(Without diving into the tables right now, I suspect that the NULL values are from systems with nothing but gas giants and belts.)

I'm at work and without my books, but I was under the impression that you didn't even generate carrying capacity for Hab 0 planets -- the assumption was that Hab 0 systems would only ever have outpost-type residents (miners, military, etc.).
__________________
-- Bryan Lovely

My idea of US foreign policy is three-fold:
If you have nice stuff, we’d like to buy it.
If you have money, we’d like to sell you our stuff.
If you mess with us, we kill you.
balzacq is offline   Reply With Quote
 

Tags
space, system generation

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Fnords are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 06:52 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.