[geoschmo]

I made a quadrant type/system type combo that attempted to balance the available facility spots for every atmosphere/planet type. Basically it comes down to not too complicated algebraic formula and finding the least common denominator.

It is possible to have completely balanced systems, however, what I found was that you ended up with a gawd-aweful large number of planets in every system. IIRC like 40 or so, but I'll have ot dig it out to be sure. As a compromise what I did was have like 5 different system types, all with a equal chance of being used in the quadrant. Assuming an equal spread of the system types being used, you would have an equal number of facility spots quadrant wide. But because of random placement you would have a little bit of a range of values for any specific starting system. And the systems had a more reasonable numebr of planets.

What you could do pretty easily is limit the players to a few different atmosphere/planet types. You could then have completely balanced systems with a reasonable number of planets per system.

I'll dig out my files and post them in the next day or so. Actually Fyron might have put a modified form of it in the FQM deluxe mod, but again I can't remember for sure.
We talked about it, bu i don't remember if he decided to or not.

Geoschmo