Asteroid Field Numbering

Baron Munchausen · #1 August 24th, 2002, 01:33 AM

Ah... I had never looked at that closely. So what happens when a planet is created out of asteroids? Is it's number changed to go at the end of the planets in that system? And then vice versa, what happens to the number of the planet that gets smashed into asteroids?

Grandpa Kim · #2 August 24th, 2002, 05:20 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Ah... I had never looked at that closely. So what happens when a planet is created out of asteroids? Is it's number changed to go at the end of the planets in that system? And then vice versa, what happens to the number of the planet that gets smashed into asteroids?

I'm not sure about asteroids to planet, but planet to asteroids simply retains the same name. If the planet was Bryma I, the new asteroid field will be Bryma I.

Kim

Fyron · #3 August 24th, 2002, 06:52 AM

When you construct a planet, it's name has the next available roman numeral for the planets in the system.

Ed Kolis · #4 August 24th, 2002, 10:09 PM

Hmm, looks like Aaron is using an array of values for the Roman numerals instead of generating them on the fly from the rules of Roman numerals... A fun project might be to write a program to generate any Roman numeral... I think I'll try that, since I have a little knowledge of Delphi, and send it in and see what Aaron thinks... it would be cool to have some code that I'd written in SE4!