This has been reported before, and is not a bug. For efficency reasons, universes are generate probabilistically. The actually number of stars generated with be less than or equal to the number requested.
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Understandable, but users of the live eventual release will not understand this, and will want the specified number of stars in their galaxies. Future headaches can be saved by correcting the code now. Generating the galaxy and starlanes patterns only needs to be done once at the game's start, so it's not that inefficient or cumbersome compared to now.
- Ghent96
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I don't really care if the player has pinpoint accuracy over the number of stars in his galaxy, but the interface shouldn't imply that the player has that control if he doesn't.
If it's going to be probabilistic, the player should choose from a drop-down menu something like this:
Logged In: YES
user_id=913462
Originator: YES
Also happens with Ring galaxies.
Logged In: YES
user_id=729903
Originator: NO
This has been reported before, and is not a bug. For efficency reasons, universes are generate probabilistically. The actually number of stars generated with be less than or equal to the number requested.
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Understandable, but users of the live eventual release will not understand this, and will want the specified number of stars in their galaxies. Future headaches can be saved by correcting the code now. Generating the galaxy and starlanes patterns only needs to be done once at the game's start, so it's not that inefficient or cumbersome compared to now.
- Ghent96
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user_id=1497072
Originator: NO
I don't really care if the player has pinpoint accuracy over the number of stars in his galaxy, but the interface shouldn't imply that the player has that control if he doesn't.
If it's going to be probabilistic, the player should choose from a drop-down menu something like this:
very tiny ~10
??? ~25
??? ~50
??? ~100
??? ~150
??? ~200
average ~250
??? ~300
??? ~350
??? ~400
??? ~450
huge ~500
What about drop down menu with these options(without numbers)?
very tiny ~10
tiny ~ 25
small ~50
average ~ 100
large ~200
huge ~500
For testing purposes, since it is determinist, it is useful to have a lot of possible values.
For a real, public-aimed release a simple drop-down with 6 to 9 options would probably be better.