09-26-2013, 06:33 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Scope and format of world data sheets in SF
Are you using something standard for generating this information? Anyway, a few thoughts by information category:
Astronomy It's fairly significant how axial tilt interacts with orbital eccentricity, and that information is missing. Climate Visible Illumination is a fairly useless level of detail, given that human vision is not appreciably affected by brightness until around 5% of normal sunlight (which will produce gradual loss of color distinction), and even 0.5% is plenty to have no effects that are particularly relevant in an RPG. Color balance would be somewhat more interesting, though given that human vision can decide that a tungsten bulb with a color temperature of 3,000K is white light, still not that big a deal unless the atmosphere is strongly colored by chemicals. Oceans Might be nice to know percentage of area that's relatively shallow (continental shelf, etc). Atmosphere Percentages of top gases? Economy I assume you're using 'Real GDP' instead of PPP for some reason? 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. Also, corruption index? Law and Enforcement People tend to be quite interested in what is illegal. |
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flat black, planet generation, planetary romance, sci-fi, science fiction |
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