Heis's Deal - Gateway

Think thit mod is more in the frontier spirit than the actual , going to adapt that for the Final release of Genesia ( making a mix with scout+ of walterar ).  

prepped the mod(s) for the lates release (201309.27)

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Finaly i decide to mod only the system Ross154 for Genesia ( i've always like a lot this one in FFE)

It's look like this :

 

 

Thanks a lot Gernot 

"the badge with the eagle is cool"

great, van maanen's turned out quite different due to the slight differences in results of the seeding.

besides yes, i guess for genesia you would have to use different seeds (what i used for alpha31 prob.)

to get some of the locations to life, that's with a high chance the case for "Gateway" and "Alioth"

and all the rest of generated systems.

this "allied systems" should work for genesia:

CustomSystemseed(436583914)
--ind, 362242304, 436583912,436583905,436583907,436583908,436583913,
--mining, 436583909
long_desc([[The now famous capital of the Alliance of Independent Systems.
This system was the subject of many battles between the Federation and the Empire over many years,
until in 3230 the Alliance was formed in a massed insurrection against both sets of invaders.
The Alliance has now spread over many worlds, and so Alioth is now an important political centre.]])

:add_to_sector(-2,5,8,v(0.677,0.506,0.383))

CustomSystemlong_desc([[Very high humidity and native life make this an interesting place to visit.
Many exotic food stuffs are grown here. The scenery is strikingly beautiful,
though the wildlife can be a little dangerous.]])

:add_to_sector(-3,5,8,v(0.5,0.6,0.1))

it's what i used for alpha31,

alioth, is prob. still unhibated, at least i checked it quickly in Genesia* and it has no population.

* i have a problem running it in the "wine wrapper", which i use on the macbook to run win32 programs, usually most programs run,

not to well it's a emulation of a win32 machine, it's not quite the same and very slow.

that's why i copied the data of genesia to a OSX alpha31 release, that works, but there might be differences

(it fails to start in "wine", but it seems the data is ok else it wouldn't run in the OSX .app. probably it's a sort of nonconformity of the gnu compiler compiled .exe to what wine expects of a win32 program. of course i could report it to them, they like to know which programs/games work with wine, but i don't like to pester them just because of a game that exists as osx release).

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edit:

van maanen's i had to make a fully customized system, because i didn't found a fitting seed, i spent half a day searching one.

it's a lot of work to setup such a large system and the meanest thing is you have no visible value for the diameter of a body in FE2/FFE,

leads sometimes to problems to find a suitable radius for the mass.

next time i copy a FE2 system i will search the running process for the radius of the objects, i know it's present as a table in the program and the value must appear somewhere in the RAM.

to all the system customizers:

please keep in mind that daylength doesn't works for spacestations even if you can (have to!) set the value,

it has no influence to the rotational speed of a station and certainly not on the orbital period.

unfortunately pioneer "needs" this useless data (to trash it?).

you can enter "bullshit" it doesn't have any effect, but without this value it "quits".

if you like to make a "near to" geostationary station, you need to alter the distance of the station to it's parent body

until the orbital period of the station matches the daylenght of the parent body, just like for any trabant.

but still after several orbital periods there will be a difference. "the station would need then a course correction" 😉 .

probably take a look at my customized systems here, some stations are "near to geostationary".

edit2:

a personal wish of mine,

i would find it extremely helpful if i could export the data of a generated system, this would make customizing far easier.

doesn't have to be a working script, just all the data in text file of a system you visit or select would be already great.

personal wish no.2:

there are many systems with wrong temperatures for the bodies in the system, e.g. some close to star planet has a surface temperature of

absolute 0 (-273°C), while prob. the next one has a temp. of lets say 53°C, some generated systems fail completely and all bodies have a surface temperature of -273°C. strangewisely it's similar to FE2, you have the same issue there.

probably that's not to solve, i don't know, but it's at least a little tear in my eyes.

personal wish no.3:

i find it anoying that i can actually only influence population by "life", for customized systems it's near to impossible to have

a "rocky" as inhabited world for proper "mining" or "industrial" systems. it turns obviously in this way always to "complex life",

even if the temperature is out of range and the atmosphere is "argon".

further any setting below and inclusive 5 of 10 turns to a inhabitet system without production or demanding for goods, this i find is a far to high limit

because i.e. 51 of 100 turns already to half a billion ppl, which i feel is far to much for a system somewhere in space where they dig for some ore.

or can't i.e 100 ppl produce something? and won't they demand something? i guess they would pay the highest price even for a comic strip, whatever you will offer them, they will certainly apreciate it much, even if it's only some news from "home".

(very hard to imagine for me what sort of life can exist in a environment of a noble gas, since they fail to react with anything it's absolutely impossible to have indigenous lifeforms, that's chemistry. and that's why earth is so full of life, because oxygene is the most agressive element, i know, i know, first it has to turned to a oxygenated atmosphere and this took roundabout a billion years, hard work for those "little fellows" (anaerobe bacteria), but noble gases wouldn't have worked in no case, everything else from sulfur to nitrogene, but not noble gases, it's impossible. i know some sci-fi they have "argon breathers" or "helium breathers", but really this will never work in no case, you can't breathe something that reacts with nothing, probably methane, but never a noble gas, not even a bacteria, any metabolism needs something to "breathe in" (take in) which reacts with another element to "breathe out" (let out) as a product of a reaction.

erm, i'm a idiot, the word "metabolism" tells this already...

"aqua compo is the best water - why? - it's imported!"

have phun