I hadn't thought of that. That's a good idea.
And, the d10 is also a good idea. It can efficiently generate a star's "decimal" and the population multiplier. I added a method for that.
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I hadn't thought of that. That's a good idea.
And, the d10 is also a good idea. It can efficiently generate a star's "decimal" and the population multiplier. I added a method for that.
Yep, and that is accepted and produced by the T5 parsers/serializers. No legacy files have that so I'm not considering it part of the "legacy SEC" standard.
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For the population multiplier you would want to use the d9 as a result of 10 wouldn't make sense.
Ah, good point.
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pendragonman
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Most Awesome, SIR! I notice an awful lot of vowels in those system names...
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Thanks! And yes, you are right, I really need to get a working ANGLIC.LNG file for better names - all that Old High Vilani is so outlandish 
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UPDATE: I just added CSV upload capability to the SectorMaker. Now you can create random sectors, download the CSV file, edit it locally and then upload it again for rendering, map creation via TravellerMap, and PDF creation.
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Thanks! Glad you like it!
That is awesome!!!
I need to re-edit planet names to generate an original setting with a border area of planet-names in one language on one side, and another language on the other side, representing two branches of humaniti. Although, over thousands of years, strange undecipherable names can crop up anywhere with a distant and often forgotten origin (and because I'll rapidly run out of any meaningful names). But anything but Old High Vilani!
Each sub-sector averages half the hexes (in standard stellar density) with systems, so that's 40 hexes.
The T5 system averages 9.8333333 planets, belts and gas giants per system. I figured it as
1 Mainworld.
2D/2-2 Gas Giants (round down), generating 48 GG's in rounded results, over all possible 36 2D rolls. Average 48/36.
1D-3 Belts (average 0.5)
2D other worlds (average 7).
So, assuming the locals have actually named every belt and gas-giant, that's 393.3333333 names on average PER sub-sector including Mainworlds.
[EDIT: It gets worse. My setting is a border-area, and there was a war hundreds of years ago. Both sides may have different names for the same planet, just like the real-world Earth has the Falkland Islands but the Argentinians call them the Islas Malvinas. Francophones copy that by calling it the Iles Malouines.]
One remark. I want to work with a .csv file to assign planet-names, and I will do so if the Errata stabilizes. But as the .csv's appears on my spreadsheet program, Open Office, the column headings don't seem to line up right with the data in the columns.
I wonder if the top line of the .csv file, which gives column titles, may have been formatted incorrectly, or you changed the order of columns after it was typed up? It is not too critical as all the info is in standard "Second Survey" order. But if I "freeze the pane" so Line 1 always appears on top as I scroll, the columns don't match the titles.
However, this is not a major point! You speak Computer and you were awesome!
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Thanks, Draconian!
I will gladly add other languages to the web site. All I need are *.LNG files. I do have some available and will try to get them online asap, but sadly I could not find any files for English or German (only Dutch as something "inbetween" - no offense meant!).
Concerning the CSV: I tested the output with MS Excel and that worked fine. Can you send me your problematic file? (I can PM you my e-mail address - or are all files showing up wrongly in Open Office? In that case I will just try Open Office myself to hunt down the error.)
I will gladly add other languages to the web site. All I need are *.LNG files. I do have some available and will try to get them online asap, but sadly I could not find any files for English or German (only Dutch as something "inbetween" - no offense meant!).
Concerning the CSV: I tested the output with MS Excel and that worked fine. Can you send me your problematic file? (I can PM you my e-mail address - or are all files showing up wrongly in Open Office? In that case I will just try Open Office myself to hunt down the error.)
.csv columns
It could be an Open Office problem. I tried Excel but it wouldn't format a .csv file into columns at all, just showed it raw. Maybe there is some trick to it I don't know, although usually I'm the Dark Lord of Excel and I know all the Seventh-Level Spells...
Hahaha, the Dutch in Space! I can't help but imagining the iconic (and insulting) Mike Myers character GoldMember in AUSTIN POWERS III: "I'm from Holland! Isn't that weird?"
It could be an Open Office problem. I tried Excel but it wouldn't format a .csv file into columns at all, just showed it raw. Maybe there is some trick to it I don't know, although usually I'm the Dark Lord of Excel and I know all the Seventh-Level Spells...
Hahaha, the Dutch in Space! I can't help but imagining the iconic (and insulting) Mike Myers character GoldMember in AUSTIN POWERS III: "I'm from Holland! Isn't that weird?"
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Now, there they are: Dutch in Space!
I just added a quick rename feature to the random sector generation - the sector, the systems, the worlds, etc. will stay the same - just the names change.
BTW, the Dutch language file looks really good to me - all those names look/sound very familiar. But I still need language files for English and German. Please PM me if you can provide one of those!
I just added a quick rename feature to the random sector generation - the sector, the systems, the worlds, etc. will stay the same - just the names change.
BTW, the Dutch language file looks really good to me - all those names look/sound very familiar. But I still need language files for English and German. Please PM me if you can provide one of those!
I'm not sure what you mean by a language file. I presume you need a basis to generate planet-names with vowel and consonant frequency? Since I don't understand what you ask for, I don't have the know-how to provide it.
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I mean those tables that came with MegaTraveller (IIRC) - syllables, vowels and consonant frequencies, yes. Given such a table I can easily write a language file for it.
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I just tried to reproduce it:
- double-clicking the CSV in Windows explorer opens the file in Excel correctly
- starting Excel and selecting File/Open, Show all files, and selecting the CSV file opens it correctly
- starting Excel with a blank spreadsheet and selecting Data/Import/From Text and just clicking through the wizard imports the data as is without columns etc.
How did you open the CSV file in Excel? Or maybe this is just a problem of different language settings? I thought I made sure to always use English (USA) or language-neutral settings... Currently I am at a loss without further info.
EDIT: Just tried Google Docs and it has issues, too; except when explicitly stating ";" as delimiter. Is anybody else having problems with the CSV files? I could try to create XLS(X) files instead...
Using Open Office, I can get the CSV file to open in what looks like the right format (e.g. columns lined up) using comma and semicolon separators, but the resulting file fails upload with the following error message:
Incorrect CSV data at row 2: Value does not fall within the expected range.
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Hi Marchand, I sent you a PM. Please provide the csv to me and I will look for a solution.
