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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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Hehe too many spoilers in my head and spreadsheet!
Anyway I miss quoted my record, it's much further away 8.6ly!
It is probably user error, or stupidity, but I would appreciate it if anyone could point out what is wrong.
I am currently at MPALANS (because it has an outpost called Morris Arena, and my surname is Morris). I make the coordinates of that 128, -10, 93 (I assume that the coordinates for a square in the galaxy map is for the centre of the square). I looked at Shinrarta Dezhra (because of the 10% discount, and my fighting ship is there). I make that 61, 17, 33. The galaxy map says it is 144.85 LY away.
Pythagoras says the square of the hypotenuse = the sum of the squares of the other sides, as we all learned at school. You can use that to find out the length of the X:Y diagonal. From that we can look at the diagonal for the triangle with the X:Y diagonal and Z. End result is that the start to end diagonal length is SQRT(Xdif ^2 + YDiff^2 + Zdiff^2). Or in this case SQRT(67^2 + (-27^2) + 60^2) or SQRT(8818) = 93.9LY. Which is very different from the 144.85: far to big to be rounding errors. So what's wrong?
I've not tested the 'elevation' axis one would think it is ly's but not tested it and not - in-game as I'm in-work
Ask in the mapping thread as there are people there thinking long and hard about this sort of thing.
Not sure about yours but I've just tried it from Sol to my current position and got an answer identical to the one the map display gave me.
Ah. MPALANS is at 123, -10, -98. Giving xdif = 62, zdif=27, ydif = 131 which gives 147ish so within rounding. Negative y coord's your trouble.
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Not sure about yours but I've just tried it from Sol to my current position and got an answer identical to the one the map display gave me.
Ah. MPALANS is at 123, -10, -98. Giving xdif = 62, zdif=27, ydif = 131 which gives 147ish so within rounding. Negative y coord's your trouble.
Ah, glad to see I was being incompetent, rather than stupid. Incompetent I can deal with (I get plenty of practice), but stupid would be more of a problem. So, yes, my spreadsheet now works.
And, what is more, the very iffy internet connection at my hotel seems to be up and running again. I'm stuck in Boston (where they had lots of snow last night) and the meeting I came here for was cancelled today (as most attendees failed to even get here with all the flight cancellations). It is very frustrating to be stuck at an hotel, with laptop and (cheap and nasty) joystick, and not being able to twiddle it because you need a permanent connection...
Well I thought that I finally found an earth-like planets but no, only a water world... Any logical explanations why this isn't even a candidate for terraforming??? Last system I was in had a planet with 700K temperature and over 10 atmospheric pressure and still was a candidate for terraforming...
Anyone have found the main star to be neutron star yet?
I just jumped in one such system and it was scarry. Also found a HMC planet at around 32AU from it.
If you go High or Low they are fairly common and always a bit scary - The best of all for thrill of course is a Black hole system or as I call them dead system
I can't figure out what makes something a candidate or not. Every time I think I've found a ruleset, I find another terraformable that breaks the rule. All I know so far is that the only terraformable worlds I've found are High Metal Content and Water Worlds. If you find some ruleset to it, please tell me.
Also, best of luck in finding an Earth-like. I've yet to find one myself.
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If you go High or Low they are fairly common and always a bit scary - The best of all for thrill of course is a Black hole system or as I call them dead system
High or Low?
Galactic plane
I've found Metal Rich CFT's too.
Thought so, thanks for clarification.
As far as I can tell: High Metal Content, Water World or Rocky, 0.7 < mass < 1.7, ~~230 < natural temperature < ~~ 300 where natural temperature is the temperature of a body at that orbit without an atmosphere.