It has come to my understanding that there has never been any (SEC) Sector files made for the 1105 CT setting/time frame for any of the existing programs out there such as World Builder (Deluxe), H&E, or Galactic, (or if they were they have been lost or never made public).
So here are my questions.
Aren't all the commonly available SEC,WBD, GAL, etc files based on the MegaTraveller time frame?
Were there HES sector files ever created for H&E? The install comes with the old WBS sector files.
If there were HES files, assuming they too were for MT, were they more accurate then the WBS files and if so where can they be found since the H&E Onelist/Yahoogroup is now dead?
Just how different is the info produced by the MT UWPs compared to UWPs from the CT time. I understand that MT added more fields to the UWPs which I really like - the more detail the better is the way I see it - but say in H&E when you pull up a Rice Paper on a world how different is that data from what would be generated if a CT era UWP (with the MT additions) would be generated?
Which available sector files contain the most accurate data...
For Classic Traveller?
For MegaTraveller?
Is it worth the effort to slog through thousands of UWPs to get accurate info for my 1105 game? (of course this, to me, depends on just how different the Rice Paper reports would be based on how different the MT data vs. the CT data is)
If I decide to take up this project I will make the sectors available for download. In the past I seem to recall on some forum someone or another saying they had done up a number of sectors for CT but they also made it clear they would never make them available for download - I am sure they had their reasons. But this, to me, goes against the grain of an online community and especially THIS online community.
As a matter of fact if anyone wants to get on this horse and help start creating CT era SEC files or you already have a few CT era SEC files that can be imported into H&E, Universe, etc. then I will move ahead a bit quicker and get my Traveller website back online ASAP and make them available to everyone.
As an aside, since I will be getting my old website back online, I want everyone to know that if you have Classic Traveller Material that you wish to share with the community but want an easier way to make it available or an additional way to make it available - I will be happy to host it on my site for you. I think I have collected almost all of the old and newer Classic Traveller programs and spreadsheets (freeware, shareware) that has been made available over the years - still looking though. So I hope to make a section of the website, basically, a clearinghouse for Traveller programs and spreadsheets and other "helper" files that have become either hard to find or unfindable anymore. Most of what I have collected is as I said CT stuff but I also have found a lot of MT stuff. So I am sure it will be made available too.
If you have material you want me to host then email me with some basic info about the material - also what format is it in (file type) and how big. I'd like to make sure everything is fairly computer universal - so PDF format for documents and charts are preferred. If you don't have the ability to convert stuff to PDF then let me know and we can try to get them into a format that I can use to PDF them.
Jerry
So here are my questions.
Aren't all the commonly available SEC,WBD, GAL, etc files based on the MegaTraveller time frame?
Were there HES sector files ever created for H&E? The install comes with the old WBS sector files.
If there were HES files, assuming they too were for MT, were they more accurate then the WBS files and if so where can they be found since the H&E Onelist/Yahoogroup is now dead?
Just how different is the info produced by the MT UWPs compared to UWPs from the CT time. I understand that MT added more fields to the UWPs which I really like - the more detail the better is the way I see it - but say in H&E when you pull up a Rice Paper on a world how different is that data from what would be generated if a CT era UWP (with the MT additions) would be generated?
Which available sector files contain the most accurate data...
For Classic Traveller?
For MegaTraveller?
Is it worth the effort to slog through thousands of UWPs to get accurate info for my 1105 game? (of course this, to me, depends on just how different the Rice Paper reports would be based on how different the MT data vs. the CT data is)
If I decide to take up this project I will make the sectors available for download. In the past I seem to recall on some forum someone or another saying they had done up a number of sectors for CT but they also made it clear they would never make them available for download - I am sure they had their reasons. But this, to me, goes against the grain of an online community and especially THIS online community.
As a matter of fact if anyone wants to get on this horse and help start creating CT era SEC files or you already have a few CT era SEC files that can be imported into H&E, Universe, etc. then I will move ahead a bit quicker and get my Traveller website back online ASAP and make them available to everyone.
As an aside, since I will be getting my old website back online, I want everyone to know that if you have Classic Traveller Material that you wish to share with the community but want an easier way to make it available or an additional way to make it available - I will be happy to host it on my site for you. I think I have collected almost all of the old and newer Classic Traveller programs and spreadsheets (freeware, shareware) that has been made available over the years - still looking though. So I hope to make a section of the website, basically, a clearinghouse for Traveller programs and spreadsheets and other "helper" files that have become either hard to find or unfindable anymore. Most of what I have collected is as I said CT stuff but I also have found a lot of MT stuff. So I am sure it will be made available too.
If you have material you want me to host then email me with some basic info about the material - also what format is it in (file type) and how big. I'd like to make sure everything is fairly computer universal - so PDF format for documents and charts are preferred. If you don't have the ability to convert stuff to PDF then let me know and we can try to get them into a format that I can use to PDF them.
Jerry