Gray Pennell
SOC-12
I am planning my 5 Sisters Website and wondering if anyone has tried T5's world Generation system yet and what did they think of the results? Should I wait till I get my print copy of T5?
System Generation
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pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
Wait. It will be worth it. It is only a matter of time now.
Gray Pennell
SOC-12
I have the T5 beta so I could do it with that but dont want to go through all the work to have to change it.
pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
Patience, Grasshopper. You have waited for T5 for years, a couple more months is nothing.
It's done already.
I did one so far.
I found it to be pretty cool, but I am no planetologist. In fact, some one commented I might have more land that a world with a Hydro of 9 should, but I am pretty sure I did it right. I can't guarantee it though, and maybe I oversized my landmasses.
The SystemGen came after I did the Mainworld. Anyway, again, no expert in Worlds, Starships are my thing.
Laterness,
Craig.
I do mine by hand still so I don't get a lot done, but I did one in detail Mainworld and System which can be found here:
I found it to be pretty cool, but I am no planetologist. In fact, some one commented I might have more land that a world with a Hydro of 9 should, but I am pretty sure I did it right. I can't guarantee it though, and maybe I oversized my landmasses.
The color picture that was said to have too much land.
The SystemGen came after I did the Mainworld. Anyway, again, no expert in Worlds, Starships are my thing.
Laterness,
Craig.
Gak.
Also, I can't lie, there were a few times I was a bit confused at exactly what I was doing. All that organic stuff, give me cold hull plate and lasers any day. This planetology stuff is all complicated.
Yeah, well I can slosh some paint over some more land then, or cheat and blame out of date data and war damage to the environment or some such excuse. I mean the UWP is based on couple thousand year old data, so some things not being accurate goes with the territory right?
Also, I can't lie, there were a few times I was a bit confused at exactly what I was doing. All that organic stuff, give me cold hull plate and lasers any day. This planetology stuff is all complicated.
Yeah, well I can slosh some paint over some more land then, or cheat and blame out of date data and war damage to the environment or some such excuse. I mean the UWP is based on couple thousand year old data, so some things not being accurate goes with the territory right?
Also, I can't lie, there were a few times I was a bit confused at exactly what I was doing. All that organic stuff, give me cold hull plate and lasers any day. This planetology stuff is all complicated.
They were water mining for starship fuel.
Brilliant!
Thank you Dragoner. Thank you very much. That was most cool. And...now the math wonks explain how some 68 gagillion ships would need to each suck away some ten gillion tons of water for some several million years. Yeah, math can suck the neato out of stuff. But, hey, it does give us rockets, so it isn't all bad.
Well, back to the old school. Youtube does have its good point, finding old school music you miss is one of them.
And that folks is why I do so love you all. Stuff like this. Bang! One simple sentence and problem solved. It looks like that Depot in the system used a whole lot of water during the Great War. Awesome. A quick up to the chart and pow, ten years later everybody can stop scribbling notes on their starcharts.They were water mining for starship fuel.
Thank you Dragoner. Thank you very much. That was most cool. And...now the math wonks explain how some 68 gagillion ships would need to each suck away some ten gillion tons of water for some several million years. Yeah, math can suck the neato out of stuff. But, hey, it does give us rockets, so it isn't all bad.
Well, back to the old school. Youtube does have its good point, finding old school music you miss is one of them.
If by 'suck the neato out' you mean 'break suspension of disbelief like a rotten egg', then you're absolutely right.
Personally, I'd rather have a simple retcon. If you want a world with a hydrographic score of 8, just change the score from 0 to 8.
But if it works for you (and especially if it work better for you), I say go for it.
Hans
Dams that increase he land surface of Earth by 10 percentage points? You're absolutely right. People never do that nowadays.
Hans
pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
Combine Grand Cooley, Three Gorges and the Aswan Dam, maybe we get a couple of percent...
Also, does anyone know if it says anywhere that "surface water" has a minimum specific depth? We can get the 10% issue covered if we look at the deltas of Mississippi, Amazon and Nile rivers, and a "modern" requirement that surface water be a minimum depth that happens to be greater than the minimum required depth of the previous survey.
You obviously have never been to the Netherlands.
Some Chinese construction companies have over a million employees, traveling cities...
far-trader
SOC-14 10K
Yep, I figure the second part is every bit as important as the first
...said the next maths neato sucker
Sure the Netherlands have reclaimed an astonishingly large percentage of land from the sea. About 27% of the country is below sea level. However...
...the land area of the Netherlands is only some 0.01% (if I did the maths rights
) the total land area of the earth And even given that your world is smaller (Size 6) a figure of 10% difference is (imo of course) frankly undoable in less than an epoch with anything short of some kind of K-T like event and that is going to change a LOT more than just the land area So, my suggestion, skip the well meaning but not thought through hand wave justifications, just ignore the roll of 9 and change it to 8 to keep the very nice map
Nobody can argue that, even with maths!
