Automated World Generation

I didn't see a link for an automated program. Only thing I could find was the PDF guide. The H&E program uses the extended world building tables from Traveller that the guide is using... unless something has been changed in the guide. Hopefully it could be helpful for quickly throwing planets together.

Well, I've tried this program and I must say it seems absolutely fantastic! For people who don't have the time or ability (the latter being unlikely) to use the Guide produced by Kage, I think this program could be of great help.

Here's a warning though; I tried running my own worlds through this program, checking to see if they came out similar to the worlds I'd constructed. They did not. I hope this is just because the computer got different random numbers than me, but here's my point;
Using this program sacrifices flexibility for speed. With my worlds, I could tweak the numbers within the allowable parameters by re-rolling results that I wasn't happy with.

Using this program will give you a fresh and ready world, but it might not be what you had in mind. Because the program is less flexible than the pen-and-paper guide, you might need to reconsider your original image and concept of the world. For example, you may find out that this world is a lot colder than what you had in mind. Or that it has a very long rotational period (length of day). Or that it has a somewhat high/low gravity. Etc.
Using this program, you'll save a lot of time working on numbers, but you'll probably need to spend more time working around problems that pop up and interfere with your image of the planet.

When Kage has commented on this program, I'll put it in a sticky thread for everyone to see.

Thanks for that, Inquisitor Lord Vatsyayana!

PS: I shall henceforth be calling you Vatsy, because I can't be bothered typing such a long name ;D

Can you edit stuff like gravity? I know you can edit hydrosphere, size, and the main statistics, but I'm talking about 'micro-data' such as orbital eccentricity, axial tilt, etc.


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You seem pretty knowledgable with this program. Think you could do it?

*Grin* If it's that much work, maybe we should just forget about it. It would be much easier to put all the Standard Representations in a single Word file, with all the relevant information, and a lot of extra relevant information (such as the actual written stuff).


Very helpful!


I assume you mean a subsector or two For now, let's wait with that. I think we can do without it, and there are other matters that are more important, such as world-building. Perhaps you would like to spend the time building a world instead? Shouldn't take too long, with your new toy ;D