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streu in Re: Federation wanted:

The reason I did not immediately tighten the settings was concerns about processor consumption (I don't want the server to get into an infinite loop when given too tight restrictions). Good news is that I'll be able to script and measure such effects soon.

I have tested some variants of settings.

FarPlanetsNo = 10, 15

With this there is no significant increase in the generation time, so you can use them right away.

FarPlanetsNo = 12, 16 HomeworldsRadius = 486

These settings are much more cpu intensive but also much more fair.

Anyway the decision on how to address the problem is yours. I just hope that this will happen someday.

Those results do not surprise me: the average is pi*165²/8000 = 10.7 planets. 12-16 is outside that range and takes a lot of luck to obtain. The question is how far we can tighten the limit. 9-12 is even more fair than 10-15.

--Stefan