Random systems

Please fix the random systems.

A lot of the generated planets (a lot means ALL) are ice planets with loads of water.

Make more random systems with different temperatures and less water.

Or better make sliders.

Water planets are a little bit lame. Because with multi planets ships are useless because they are stuck on the planet and can't be teleported.

I will add that we need in multiple planet spawns too. All random systems has a one start planet.

It doesn't seem to bad though. I took a sample of 300 randomly generated planets.

Only the Earth-type planets seem to have significant amounts of water. Their water heights are:


So it seems even for the Earth type planets, many of them aren't water planets.

Also, don't you get a choice of five different systems. They're not all water, are they?

I like to play on a earth like planet or tropical or dessert planet.

The water units are to powerful and slow. They are not that fun to play with.

But with this kind of random maps the lava planets are the way to go unfortunately.

The random maps before where 10 times better.......

Well, if you want to change the random systems, you can open the file "<PA Install Dir>/media/ui/main/game/new_game/new_game.js". On line 1312 and further, you can change the range of water height for random planets. Change lines, such as:

Code:

  waterHeight: [55, 60],

to for example

Code:

  waterHeight: [25, 30],

And, ta-daa no or less water. You can muck about with the other ranges as well. If you find values you like, I can help you turn it into a proper mod, so you can share.

this is actually a valid point that I had not thought of before... water planets are disadvantageous to hold, because it is harder to stage an invasion from one. Are unit cannons still build-able on water? I thought they removed that, as well.

Omg Thanks dude will look into that today.

And the unit cannon cannot be build on water so yes invasions to other planets are harder. Only option is orbital.

Editing the file works but it's a hassle takes long time.

I still would like to have sliders.

Just get this mod Goofyz3
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-awesome-system-generator.67747/
Its a mod made by a guy that completely obsoletes the official uber system....again.....

People sure do have time when they can test it 300 times...

I didn't play 300 games just to get my data, silly. I pulled them directly from the random system generator underneath of course.

Will try this mod tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

Still sounds like a lot of time.

Yeah that's a really good mod actually, not to mention it's probably the most complex mod for PA.

Its definitely better than the new vanilla generator.

Awesome it works great.