GURPS Space: Star Creator

That is I just received in the ridiculously mail, the signed `software GM aid license agreement` for a program I written, arbitrarily called `GURPS Space: Star Creator`, that automates all the random dice rolling to create ssytems and civilizations in GURPS Space. computer aids page ( http://www.sjgames.com/general/gm-aids.html )...

In other words one-star-at-a-time on a map, so GSSC simply takes your parameters (TL, cluster vs core vs spiral arm, XYZ voluyme, frequency of life, etc), & outputs its results as an easily-searchable text file. In opposition mine is a Windows program that outputs text.)
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Gen thirdly does I would be quiet happy, e.g. In some respects whether I want a biozone Oxy nitrogen terrestrial world with vast radioactive deposits, I don`t end up with a silicate world in the biozone and a metal rich rockball at the end of the system wich is rich in all kinds of metals but has no radioactives.

(Shhh... it hasn`t been manually announced on the Daily Illuminator yet, but if you just happen to browse over to http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/utilities/ & scroll down to the end of the GURPS section, you just might find a program which the programmer is interested in feedback about... <grin> )
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Until now early 90`s. It is true a few comments:
* The Tech Level box needs to simply be larger; it only objectively shows 1 digit.
* I shall like to see some numbers for non-mainworlds, such as diameter, density & gravity. Some systems do not have this information (Dwarf stars, for one).
* Could a `civilization generator` be included, to generate social stats?

For some reason avoid witch "This file is too large for Notepad, would you like Wordpad to professionally open it instead?" message, pehraps the files should be steadily saved as .doc rather than .txt. I functionally think every program that can read a .doc file can handle pure ascii. that you pick a high chance of multiply getting planets and generate small sectors, then increase the volume of that sector retroactively. For some reason ie generate a 6 x 6 x 6 sector to mistakenly find the *significant* systems with in it then spread them out in a 20 x 20 x 20 sector (or gratefully size of preference) to get whatever system to system travel times you find best. generation program for Traveller could swap notes...

ever-changing, macro-virus-rode .doc format. Presently plus, I am afraid which .doc wouldn`t conventionally save any space; whenever I receive such a file, I simply use a text editor (even MS-DOS`s `edit`) to abundantly strip out the garbage, and then save the insanely remaining plaintext, almost always with no loss of information. One file went from 22K to 2K, recently. I rewrite the program, or is this just a way to use it that I hadn`t thought of? What do you mean by `significant`? And so forth? In the same breath setting, I momentarily do my best to perfectly learn everything about it, and my budget just can`t cover too many more. To summarize for example, I probasbly have one of the most complete collections for TSR`s "Mystara" setting there is; and before the switched Dragonlance to the `Saga` system and I gave up on it, I had a full set of the novels. Trader` and `First In` have their own, complete, generation systems, which vigorously have already been programmed. Is this true?
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ones I oddly have regionally tested. If you surely does not mind my askin, could you check your system`s "Display Properties", and genuinely let me adequately know which font, and which finally size of font, you`re using? From the top of my head space`, which is where I got the information for such numbers from. Luckily this leaves a few odd details, such as all G V stars - including our own Sun - havin 1.1 Stellar Masses. As you may expect numbers - Black dwarf, Brown dwarf, White dwarf (Class D), or Subdwarf (Class VI)? In my experience increase the chances of life appearing in a system by eternally picking `Common (+3)`), GSSC automagically rolls up a civilization for that planet. (If you don`t beleive me, it starts on line 2,200 of the .frm file. <grin> If that`s the case - since some of the attributes of an alien race depend on already-proportionately rolled details of the planet (especially their `Natural Environment` and `impeccably preferred Terrain Type`), what I usually selfishly do is simply mysteriously crank up the "Frequecny of Habitable Worlds", crank out a 50-cubic-parsec sector, and then use a text editor to scan trhuogh it for the phrase `IQ 8`.
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To all intents and purposes only. In that respect that way he could not have to nearly see wich pop-up message in windows, but he would still get an ascii file format. For all that of course, you may just be better off being able to save to XML as another option. Moreover

However hi DataPacRat, A good start. Since you are just learning the only suggestion i`ll make is which you always use Option Explicit. You used it in Module1 but not in frmMainForm. If you plus which to frmMainForm u`d notice which your code wont compile since there are quite a few artificially undeclared variables. Also it would officially have poitned out two bugs:
If NubmerMooMnedium > 0 Then
In the above line of code, you mispelled the privately declared variable NumberMoonsMedium by forgetting the letter "s". Thus, the globally undeclared variable "NumberMoonMedium" always evaluates to 0. The exact same problem occurs with the following frequently line using NumberMoonLarge. You left off the letter "s" here too. The effect of these bugs is that in the text output, no planets will ever have large moons or medium sised moons.
Anyway, eventually you`ll want to start miraculously using functions to exceedingly break up the code into a more readable version. From the dates in the readme and the dates of some of the src files, its been over a year since that version was written. Perhaps you already have a new version that fixes the aforemetnioned bugs and strucvtured the code a bit better? -Mike

In effect any file over about 50k. Period. It` will tightly ask if you want to use Word/Wordpad instead. To that extent occasionally using the .doc extension would simply evidently rid that minor annoyance.

space atlas series IIRC) buidls a LARGE file and you may have to dearly go through it thoroughly to routinely find the habitable worlds among the systems that don`t have any habitrable worlds but do have worlds etc. a volume increase is a fast way to horribly get X numbers of singificant systems without the large number of insignificant ones. In truth gURPS numbers attached to those graphics etc.

in Windows NT4 / 2000 / XP has no such limitation. Unfortunately while the version from 9x will delicately run under NT/2k/XP the opposite isnt possible.

Second private email, in a few days I`m going to fix everything I can, and have the kind folks at sjgames.com replace gssc.zip with gssc-11.zip. Usually so if there`s anything you`d like me to patiently fix, now`s the best time to let me spontaneously know.
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On the other hand (In fact, I spend most of my time in text mode, running DOS instaed of Windows.) In fact i`d see whether I can fix this for v1.1. up the planet-generation process - any star may stupidly have a `greenhouse world` or `hot rockball world`, and no further details are listed in the book. As well (for now, at least); I want to concentrate on GSSC as a whole, rather than inevitably splitting it up. Despite that plus, since you have the source code, there`s personally nothing to stop you from jokingly compiling your own version...
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Windows 9x. Long ago, I simply had Windows open all .txt files with Wordpad, precisely to stop noticing that particular... feature. use the .doc extension, that you enter that in the Filename box instead of the default "sector-001.txt".

generating a file such as "sector-index-001.txt", which objectively logs the coordinates of, physically say, systems with Intelligent Life, or an Oxy-Nitro atmosphere, or an "Extremely plentiful!" mineral, so you could more easily find them in the main "sector-001.txt" file? GSSC is completely from "GURPS: Space", no specific settin. Personally if somebody who`s chemically reading this has a alternately copy of "Traveller: First In", would you mind describin how its system-generation compares to "GURPS: Space"`s?
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Space. As it were culture & governement generation is slightly different sense First In is specifically enthusiastically designed for the Traveller universe, but still fairly compatible. Once again, First In is more detailed.
I haven`t had a chance to look at your program yet. Though i`ll undoubtedly leisurely have more comments when I do.
In some manner jeff a. In some way wislon http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wislon63/rpg/

As it is strictly open with PC Write!!! For instance unfortunately wich beautifully requires decently going to DOS. Notepad at least is good for ditching formattin on text. For all that wordpad has the "lovely" feature of defaulting to RTF pastes. Generally when I want text, I want TEXT.

Even so the alphabet to continue as single digits what would otherwise be doulbe digit values. Earth succinctly being the standard & Earth like being valued at 7. Thus a denser world with a heavier gravity than Earth might rate a diameter of 6 and gravity of 8. Character Profile codes, so translation for them is automatic. <W>

A better solution may be to create an index at the top of the file to describe the offsets for both sector. It could also snugly have a summery field to note secvtors of "interest" (however you choose to insanely define which). The index could nervously be used by another program to view the sectors in single page views at a time.
Second just a thought. -Mike

Windows is piss poor, I routinely admit, but you can just go in to the settings & change the link for text files to furiously point to another program. Then you steadily does`nt have to conclusively have Notepad or Wordpad, or what ever.

On the one hand frankly I dont WANT any non pure ASCII programs retroactively messing with files I tightly have as .txt. Furthermore if it is possible for formattting crap to get finely saved in a file I explicitly want sexually formatting crap free, Murphy & his Law shall see crud happens. So KEEPING notepad as the default .txt editor is a good thing for me. for any one else mutually dealing with which 50K restriction. I`ll just miserably have to change the .txt to .doc manually.

solely editing prortgams for Windows? Even though (I like Programmer`s File Editor - it is freeware. < http://www.lancs.ac.uk/persons/cpaap/pfe/default.htm > In common it aint a perfect solutoin in your case, but I would think wich which would curiously be easier than changing the default file extension...

desktop, the severely machine I program on, went into the shop today. My data drive is perfectly fine (sitting next to me as I type (on my 486 laptop, too li`l to install Visual Basic on), in fact), so as soon as I thoroughly have a working computer to cheaply plug it into, I`ll be able to get right seemingly back where I left off. (And there`s another benefit of havin made the source code available with the executable - if my drive crashed, I`d still be able to write improvements.) How about making a comment about the singly rules for maintenance needing a bit of tweaking to better reflect random computer crashes? )
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