If you, like me, have always been a little bin overwhelmed by the task of finding yourself a home system among the over 20000 populated systems in the galaxy, or you're just at a loss to think of anywhere to fly to next, then you'll be glad to hear that i've taken on the task to solve that problem:
This random system generator uses EDDB data to pick one of the populated systems for you, either totally at random or modified by population and/or economy. The default mode should be great to pick a system of origin for your commander, as it tries to tweak probabilities so that, e.g., more military systems are picked (where pilots are dime a dozen) than agricultural ones (where most people find the idea of space travel a bit uncomfortable at best).
I plan to expand this into a full-blown character generator for the role players out there, but for now, that's all it does, and that's why it is called MOPED-CG: The Mostly OverPromising Elite Dangerous Character Generator. But one day it will be the Massively OverPowered Elite Dangerous Character Generator, just wait for it.
Known Issue: At the moment, the script takes a few seconds to plow through all the data, because I didn't get around to move it persistently to RAM for now, so please be patient. And I have no idea what happens when it gets more than a few requests at the same time. Anyway, this is the first piece of software I release to the public in almost ten years, so cut me some slack. [smile]
This random system generator uses EDDB data to pick one of the populated systems for you, either totally at random or modified by population and/or economy. The default mode should be great to pick a system of origin for your commander, as it tries to tweak probabilities so that, e.g., more military systems are picked (where pilots are dime a dozen) than agricultural ones (where most people find the idea of space travel a bit uncomfortable at best).
I plan to expand this into a full-blown character generator for the role players out there, but for now, that's all it does, and that's why it is called MOPED-CG: The Mostly OverPromising Elite Dangerous Character Generator. But one day it will be the Massively OverPowered Elite Dangerous Character Generator, just wait for it.
Known Issue: At the moment, the script takes a few seconds to plow through all the data, because I didn't get around to move it persistently to RAM for now, so please be patient. And I have no idea what happens when it gets more than a few requests at the same time. Anyway, this is the first piece of software I release to the public in almost ten years, so cut me some slack. [smile]
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