[TML] 28,000 stars: Bugs Squashed NEW STATS

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 2/17/08 1:44 AM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are 3 runs of the program. The bug was in the counting not the
> making of the stars and was really hard to find but is now gone.
> Thanks for spotting it!!! How does this look?
> Does it look like a fun star field for play? Does it look realistic or
> have ver. . .?? Whatever that was ;-)

Let's see:
    38% of systems empty.
        Overall average of 5.6 planets per system (including empties).

    62% of systems have some planets.
        Average of 9.0 planets per system with planets.
        29% have a possible Earth.
        10% have possible Reginas.

    24% of systems *might* have native, non-exotic life.
        So, a lot of systems are completely empty (38%), or likely only used
for resources and/or domed/underground living (38%+).

This doesn't sound far off regular Traveller systems, and certainly could be
fun to play.  As for verisimilitude, that's largely a judgment call.  All we
*know* to compare with is ours.  The rest is more educated guesswork than
statistics.

(Oh, by the way, your Life percentages seem to be percentage of total
planets, unlike the Inner and Outer percentages.  Don't know if that's what
you were wanting.)