I added about 25 planets to the GC map that had 43 planets. I just can't play a galaxy wide conflict without planets like Yaga Minor, Bastion, Lianna, Raithal, Balmorra, Rendili, Sluis Van etc. But giving planets coordinates that didn't collide with or weren't too close to others was a long tedious process. I took the coordinates from an existing nearby planet to use as a starting point for new coordinates, then fired up the game to check. So it was pretty hit and miss and the core / deep core area was hell. Is there a better way to do this? I sure hope the editor comes with a drag and drop interface for planets.

Shrink the scale of the planet models, that'll give you more space to put planets in.

Ahh, I didn't think of that. Will that affect the surrounding icons of the planet as well?

I don't think it does, but there's probably a way to shrink that as well.

gratz on adding planets i wish i could do stuff like that

change the galaxy size scale larger. You can literally give yourself a bigger galaxy to arranged planets accurately.

how do you do that?

Change the scale factor on the Galaxy Model (first entry in planets.xml) the way you did with the planet models, just make it bigger instead of smaller.

You also can just start up the game and alt-tab out, you dont need to restart the game everytime you make a change.

The coords are ez. The first number is left or right of center. "-" being left and "+" being right the second number is the vertical postion. "+" being up and "-" being down. Remember the its all from dead center.