A mod I am thinking of doing...

[geoschmo]

As far as methane having an advantage, that depends on how the game actually chooses what particular planet goes where. I had always assumed that it decides first the size, composition and aptmosphere of planet, and then refers to the sectortype file to select from the available planets that fit those characteristics. In that case there would be statistically no difference between the Rock worlds of any of the four aptmoshpere types (Not including the none aptmosphere. That would have a slight advantage due to the moons)

If however as you seem to think the game goes to the sector type file and Groups all the "any" type planets together and randomly chooses from them, then yes I suppose Methane would have a slightly higher chance of occuring.

The way to tell I guess would be to do a mod with only two types of planets in the sector type file and a lot more of one than the other and see how many of each get picked.

Geoschmo

[ June 17, 2002, 18:41: Message edited by: geoschmo ]