Traveller software

By James T. Perkins ·

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Hi everyone,

If anyone out there has any Traveller software, let's have it!  I've been
working on a big generation system myself, where you can generate whole
sectorsful of systems with the expanded system generation rules of Book 6
(Scouts), and am curious what others have come up with.

Mine is still in the design stage, but is based on a menu-oriented user
interface.  Users start off with an empty "quadrant" and can add up to 10000
sectors to it.  When the user adds a sector, the user can then expand that
sector and examine it in the sector menu.

The sector menu has a 4x4 grid of subsectors with the names and system
generation probability listed in each cell.  The user can navigate around the
cells and change the names or percentages.  ALternately, the user can command
the menu to generate all the systems in the sector, either in the basic or
expanded system generation systems.  If the user has chosen the expanded
system on an already-populated sector where the basic system was used, the
continuation system is used to bring the basic systems up to expanded
systems.  The program will take care of automatic X-boat route and trade route
generation, and sector/subsector capital generation.

The user can then choose to expand a subsector, which brings up a hex map of
all the systems in that subsector.  Here the user can alter names, etc. Then
the user can expand a single system and look at the individual systems in the
system menu...

oh well, enough noise for now.  Does anyone out there know of any Traveller
system generation programs that already exist, as opposed to my unimplemented
one?  Is anyone else working on one?

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