Greetings to all list members,
At first a big thanks to Jo Jaquinta and (or ?) the Devnaree Collective.
I have downloaded your Liblist.zip from 128.95.136.1 today. At the first
view, I like it. But I have some questions on it (I do not owe the World
Builders Guide, so please no flames on this ;-) ).
1. Are the World Temperatures in Centigrade or Fahrenheit. I believe in
Centigrade, but I would like to be sure.
2. I have created worldmaps for different planets, and I wonder, why most
of the planets, I have choosen, turn out to be Ice-Cappped. Especially
I have created the Solar-System with the Program (no flame please, I
know the names and Datas are generated Randomly) and Terra is placed
at the orbit of a Gasgiant. So its Ice-capped to. I haven't got any
planet, which surface is not Ice-capped with at least 25% Ice. A little
bit strange for me! Can someone please tell me, if this is a result of
random, or a well known phenomenon.
3. I wonder, if your program reads the complete data of a avialable Sector
list. As I mentioned before, I have tried Terra in Solomani-Rim. I used
the Solomani-Sektor, downloaded from 129.100.100.12 (Sunbane). The
description of Terra in this file, includes the extended Data "414"
for Population Factor, #belts and #gasgiants. The sun is correctly
identified as G2 V by your program (by the way, G2 5 is not the correct
style of writing, the Astronomy uses the roman numbers to distinguish
the sequences in the Hertzsprung-Russel-Diagram). But the program
generates only 3 Gasgiants and no Belt.
4. I have entered Subsector names in the table. Then I got problems, to
find the Subsectors on the correct place. The choose Subsector map turns
from 4*4 to 3*6. What's that ? (I think I should ask, because your
Subsektor Grid cuts names, why not your choose Subsektor menu ?)
Don't bother about my comments. Your program is very usefull and easy to
use. I will try to find out, how I can send you the $15. It's not easy to
send money from Germany to the USA (I have no credit card yet).
That's for today,
Juergen
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Juergen Kirsch
Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Bonn
Germany
[email removed]