I downloaded H&E and have been using it to make maps, and I've noticed a few things. Well, three:
1. There seems to be no belt-systems. In other words, there are never those systems that are ONLY a asteroid belt.
2. Red zones seem to generate fairly well, some subsectors have anywhere between none to three or four. But amber zones are rare, and don't seem to generate at all.
3. Most stars that are generated are in the F spectral class range, few are G or K class. Now, since I thought F, G, and K were the ones to go to for habitable planets, I thought they'd be fairly common, but F-class stars seem to be the ones that keep popping up.
So I was wondering, is this normal? Or is it a quirk? Because I thought that a) belt-systems were relatively common, or might be if the class of star were hotter (white class, so that you wouldn't get planets but you'd probably get asteroids), or cooler and older (red dwarves, so the planets would be uninhabitable but you can still get asteroids
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b) That the most common star is red-class dwarves or giants;
and c) that amber zones are more common than red zones, which I always treated as some super-dangerous occurence (prison planet where all the dangerous and politically sensitive prisoners are sent, planet of the flesh eating bug eyed monsters, quarantined world because of a dangerous and highly contagious plague, or primitive world that's been isolated to prevent exploitation, planet of the God Aliens with TL-one million etc), whereas amber zones were more your garden-variety 'enter at your own risk' system (some high chance of piracy, some irate and xenophobic natives, quacks and loonies).
Thoughts?
1. There seems to be no belt-systems. In other words, there are never those systems that are ONLY a asteroid belt.
2. Red zones seem to generate fairly well, some subsectors have anywhere between none to three or four. But amber zones are rare, and don't seem to generate at all.
3. Most stars that are generated are in the F spectral class range, few are G or K class. Now, since I thought F, G, and K were the ones to go to for habitable planets, I thought they'd be fairly common, but F-class stars seem to be the ones that keep popping up.
So I was wondering, is this normal? Or is it a quirk? Because I thought that a) belt-systems were relatively common, or might be if the class of star were hotter (white class, so that you wouldn't get planets but you'd probably get asteroids), or cooler and older (red dwarves, so the planets would be uninhabitable but you can still get asteroids
b) That the most common star is red-class dwarves or giants;
and c) that amber zones are more common than red zones, which I always treated as some super-dangerous occurence (prison planet where all the dangerous and politically sensitive prisoners are sent, planet of the flesh eating bug eyed monsters, quarantined world because of a dangerous and highly contagious plague, or primitive world that's been isolated to prevent exploitation, planet of the God Aliens with TL-one million etc), whereas amber zones were more your garden-variety 'enter at your own risk' system (some high chance of piracy, some irate and xenophobic natives, quacks and loonies).
Thoughts?
