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

[Knapp]

On Feb 17, 2008 8:35 AM, Jerry W Barrington <jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

Yes, that is what I was wanting. Only reason inner and outer are
percentages of their groups is because that is how it was written in
the PDF and that is what I wanted to check against.