Once a month is actually pretty frequent; that surprises me. Anywho, it wouldn't be a big deal to find a body that broke an outdated record, IMO. It's not like you can go looking for record-breaking bodies on purpose, and if you were (or if you can, I suppose) then you'd be up to speed already anyways. Just update the xml with the current record and wait until it triggers again.
<!-- High Inclination Moon of a body with rings -->
<Criteria Comparator="And">
<Criteria Comparator="Or">
<Criteria Comparator="Between" LowerValue="65.0" UpperValue="115.0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">OrbitalInclination</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Between" UpperValue="-65.0" LowerValue="-115.0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">OrbitalInclination</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Greater" Value="0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">Parent:Rings</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Not">
<Criteria Comparator="Greater" Value="0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">StellarMass</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Not">
<Criteria Comparator="Greater" Value="0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">Parent:StellarMass</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
</Criteria>
<Description>High Inclination body near rings</Description>
<Detail>
<Item>OrbitalInclination</Item>
</Detail>
</Criteria>Hm. What an idea. How many stars orbit ringed bodies? And why wouldn't you want to detect a high inclination body around a ringed star? I didn't realize there were negative inclinations, so thanks for including that!
RTFM!How about this? In theory, it'll just check for a ringed planet parent, "Planet:[number]" being a field in the "Parent" event data if the parent is indeed a planet. This may be another non-starter, though, since "Planet" is not listed in Observatory's criteria.
<Criteria Comparator="And">
<Criteria Comparator="Or">
<Criteria Comparator="Between" LowerValue="65.0" UpperValue="115.0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">OrbitalInclination</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Between" UpperValue="-65.0" LowerValue="-115.0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">OrbitalInclination</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="And">
<Criteria Comparator="Greater" Value="0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">Parent:Rings</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Greater" Value="0">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">Parent:planet</FirstValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
</Criteria>
<Description>High Inclination body near rings</Description>
<Detail>
<Item>OrbitalInclination</Item>
</Detail>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="And">
<Criteria Comparator="Equal" Value="1">
<Operation Operator="None">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">PlanetClass:gas giant with ammonia based life</FirstValue> [One criteria for each GG type]
</Operation>
</Criteria>
<Criteria Comparator="Between" LowerValue="0" UpperValue="56000">
[Something tells me this should be type specific, but it also seems the higher the radius, the faster the necessary rotational period required to make a squishy, so maybe there is a constant?]
<Operation Operator="Multiply">
<FirstValue Type="EventData">Radius</FirstValue>
<SecondValue Type="EventData">RotationPeriod</SecondValue>
</Operation>
</Criteria>
<Description>Ammonia Life Squishy</Description>
<Detail>
<Item>DistanceFromArrivalLS</Item>
</Detail>
</Criteria>I think this checks if <RotationPeriod * Radius> falls between 0 and 56000.
But it looks like the rotational periods for gas giants have a really wide range. One of the slowest takes over 7 million days to rotate. One of the fastest is listed at about 0.2 seconds (Synuefe IK-C d14-69 2). Yikes.Excellent; sounds like a challenge.Unfortunately the oblate shape of planets isn't directly stored in the journals, and thus the EDSM data doesn't have it. Instead, it would need to be extrapolated from the rotational period of the planets, and related to their size. So I guess a sensible cutoff would need to be chosen.
My database is a bit clobbered at the moment, since it's currently running today's map and spreadsheet updates.
Yeah, I’m working on that. I just wondered if you had anything already.
