Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
I hope that some more experienced hands at 2300AD can help me with this.
Have just attempting to plot some stutterwarp drive journeys, which require the distance in light years between the start point and the end point to be calculated. Where the journey is between a world with a colony, that is easy enough as the system data is next to the world data (unless you happen to be Crater, anyway). However, if you need to stop at another star system to discharge the drive, the ideas seems to be use the Near Star List to obtain the co-ordinates. Fair enough, but the NSL is organised in the sequence of what appears to be a randomly assigned numbers, and to find a specific star the player has to read through all 900+ entries, many of which have very similar names, and are not in any kind of name order.
So, as I assume this problem has occurred before, has anyone done a list of the NSL in order of name of each star? Very easy to do if the data is on a spread sheet somewhere.
Or perhaps I should just handwave the jumps?
Thanks
Egil
Have just attempting to plot some stutterwarp drive journeys, which require the distance in light years between the start point and the end point to be calculated. Where the journey is between a world with a colony, that is easy enough as the system data is next to the world data (unless you happen to be Crater, anyway). However, if you need to stop at another star system to discharge the drive, the ideas seems to be use the Near Star List to obtain the co-ordinates. Fair enough, but the NSL is organised in the sequence of what appears to be a randomly assigned numbers, and to find a specific star the player has to read through all 900+ entries, many of which have very similar names, and are not in any kind of name order.
So, as I assume this problem has occurred before, has anyone done a list of the NSL in order of name of each star? Very easy to do if the data is on a spread sheet somewhere.
Or perhaps I should just handwave the jumps?
Thanks
Egil