[TML] ANNOUNCE: New Sourceforge Project

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 2/12/08 6:39 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2008 10:50 PM, Jerry W Barrington <jursamaj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Of course, as envisioned, my system makes little or no effort to put social
>> details onto planets.  It starts from (accurately) random star masses, runs
>> a simulation for a few billion years, and leaves you with a cluster of stars
>> and (if I get that far) their planets.  It's based on a lot of science.
>> From what I've read on these simulations, it'll probably take days for a
>> full run (about 1000 stars for about 4-5 billion years), but I don't intend
>> to do it really often.  :)
> 
> My system is giving about 6% of the planets (all the types) in the
> life zone. That means that you don't end up with many playable planets
> with just 1000 stars.

Hmm, "6% of the planets" isn't enough info.  If you average 8 planets per
star, that's still almost 1 habitable zone planet per 2 stars.  Few of those
will be gas giants, and if they are, their moons are in the zone.