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Missing planets (Sometimes planets aren't generated)

Missing planets

midtskogen

Date: Friday, 15.02.2013, 12:53 | Message # 1

Star Engineer

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Norway

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I have an automated explorer which simulates random clicks on stars and capture the text that appears on the screen. But quite frequently the systems have no planets. There can be hundreds of clicks and none of them have planets. The planets don't appear in the browser, either. However, if I stop clicking for stars, wait or move a bit around, and then check the systems that did not have planets previously, they now do have planets.

It might be related to all the clicking. I haven't seen this when clicking manually, but I do that much slower and with lesser patience than my automatic explorer which makes about 5 clicks per second and will do it as long as I wish.

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SpaceEngineer

Date: Friday, 15.02.2013, 13:04 | Message # 2

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SE requires a time to generate the system, up to 1 second.

midtskogen

Date: Sunday, 24.02.2013, 08:00 | Message # 3

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Quote (SpaceEngineer)

SE requires a time to generate the system, up to 1 second.

Will this improve in 0.97, which has multithreading? I have a quadcore hyperthreaded 3.5 GHz Intel i7. The text appears instantly, but for periods without the planets line.

I tried to slow it down to 2 clicks per second, which didn't help. Will try even slower when I get the chance.

Added (24.02.2013, 11:00)
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Slowing down to 2 clicks every 3 seconds helps, but it still happens. Also, sometimes the planets appear, but they are without life when they should, i.e. if I close SE and restart and check the star again, it has planets with life.

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DoctorOfSpace

Date: Sunday, 24.02.2013, 09:11 | Message # 4

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Quote (midtskogen)

Will this improve in 0.97, which has multithreading?

I would assume so. SE has stated before that multithreading speeds up generation.

Intel Core i7-5820K 4.2GHz 6-Core Processor
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC 6GB

midtskogen

Date: Friday, 01.03.2013, 08:18 | Message # 5

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Norway

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Another variation on the topic of missing planets: Now SE reports planets, but where are they?:

It says 23 planets, but I can't find any for this star. I can only find 11 for the whole septuple system, which is also what I see reported if I select RS 8403-287-7-1430250-30.

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Missing planets (Sometimes planets aren't generated)

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