Customizable System Creation - CAN HAS?!?!

I've always loved Map Editors. They are tons of fun to play around with.

Planetary Annihilation has a fantastic opportunity to provide it's players with a truly excellent map editor. The pieces are already there - Allowing the player to select, customize and create custom maps couldn't be all that difficult.

Sliders / Editable fields that would be awesome to see in such a 'System Creation System'..

# of Planets
Planet Size
Planet Type
Gas Giant?
Has Water? (%)
Can Halley? (#)
Orbit radius
Orbit speed
# of MEX (allow for individual, custom mex placement OR % value)
# of Spawn points

Eventually, it would be awesome to see a custom planet crafter - where the player could shape the surface with rocks, trees, cracks, etc. as well.

What do ya'll think? What else would you want in a Custom Map Generator?

You do realise there already is a system designer that has over half the features you request?
But the ones you propose that aren't already included would be most welcome.

In the main menu is 'system designer' that covers most of this have a play! Once you create a system, you can play on it either via single player - skirmish (thev load map, your own maps are added to the bottom of the list after the standard ones) or through hosting a multiplayer game.

Things that can't currently be done:

Direct editing of terrain features, spawns or metal placement. However you can adjust mosy of these with sliders. You can also control which planets are spawns, adjust orbits, control which planets can be smashed (and how many engines that requires) and so on.

he means probably some kind of lobby quick system generation tool where you dont set up everything, you just have more options than "generate new". I suggested this long ago, as did others... it's a must feature in my opinion. The random generation is just annoying. And the fact i have to spend 10 minutes in system editor to e.g. generate a system with 3 planets and 1 metal and 1 gas like i wish for 3v3.. it's ridiculous when simply little more extra input for the random generation process could do this in 30 seconds.

Hmm I think there was an old mod that did this. If not it's something that could be modded.

i know there was a template mod, but it was never updated anymore... if someone would invest time in that again, it would be awesome.

http://www.pa-mods.com/mod-entry.php?mod=com.pa.dementiurge.apd

The reseed functionality was removed when gamma hit. I don't know if it will re-appear, I don't know what @Dementiurge has planned.