I know, from the wiki, what the average size of worlds in each slot is. But what I don't know, and what I feel is an important factor, is what the standard deviation is..or even if world sizes follow a normal curve.
Does anyone have information on that?
While I think you could do that math, I dont think the data is accurate enough to rely on. Its pretty incomplete, based solely on user input, and users are notorious for giving incomplete data. For example, if I get a slot 12 at 220, I am much more likely to "report" it than if I get a 120 in the same slot. Not saying its done on purpose or anything, just saying that it does happen, its pure human nature.
Yes. Though, actually, the calculations for normal distributions are very, very robust. I'm recording my attempts for a high slot world in the 13-15 and 1-3 ranges, and hope to produce a fairly detailed map of the distribution.
My largest problem is that I do not know the distribution follows a bell curve, and lacking that, I can describe something very far off from what is real.
Its safe for me to judge from experience that 4-6's have high deviations, whilst 7-9's have lower deviations, also 15 doesn't have a bell shape to it imo... i spent some time colonizing at it.. mostly it was low, but on occassion you'd get the 180-190+; as with most individual perspectives, smaller quantity of results has a greater liability to be unrepresentative.
no statistical work undergone yet for SD afaik
Yesterday and the day before, I spent a great deal of time colonizing and recording the fieldsizes and temperatures of the extreme worlds.
I've since found a world I'm willing to settle, a slot 11 with 198 fields and an average temp of -16.
this is my table of (among other things) slotsizes, which I'll add to again as I search out a suitable world, hopefully colder (or perhaps very warm), once I reach Astro 15. Well in the works, that.
https://spreadsheets.google.co…ymORm7MObdVmZC77x5w#gid=2
I am noticing that 1-3 and 13-15 occupy very tight ranges, and wonder as to how, exactly, they are programmed in. A simple rand(x)+base would be much easier to do than to generate a simulation of a normal curve, and I'm beginning to suspect as much. If indeed it happens that slot 15's occasionally get worlds as large as 180, I'd expect a pair of ranges, one given a great more likelyhood of being chosen than the other.
