Map Making - Seeking Limits/Definitions/Other

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Been working on my own map, and been searching all over the place, but haven't found specifics. Any one know (or link to) where I can find the following details:

- Max Stars Allowed
- Max Planets Allowed (per map, already know its 5/Star)
- Max Asteroid Fields Allowed
- Max Resources Allowed
- Max Ships Allowed

- Max distance Planets & Asteroid Fields can be placed from the Star
- Do Asteroid Fields have to have an assiociated Star
- What does the
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
- Max Stars Allowed
- Max Planets Allowed (per map, already know its 5/Star)
- Max Asteroid Fields Allowed
- Max Resources Allowed
- Max Ships Allowed

- Max distance Planets & Asteroid Fields can be placed from the Star
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There are limits in place on the random generation of maps, but AFAIK there is no (intentional) limitation in custom maps. So it'd probably just boil down to acceptable performance, out of memory crashes, or any bugs that may appear with large counts.

Asteroids probably do need to have a star associated with them.

Not sure what you mean about "Value".

The game only reads major race systems from customplanets.xml.

You should be able to start with mutiple planets owned in a custom map, though there's no way to do that for random maps that I'm aware of.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the reply Kryo...

As to "Value" I see that for some reason the editor removed the data I had right after that... value of "NumAsteroids" (I think the greater/less than signs caused it to be blocked out)

Also...is there a limit to the number of asteroids per star?

Again, thanks for any info.
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