Does, Anyone have time to fix the PW map file?

A simple bit of script or code will do it, maybe 45 mins work, i dont have time atm.

Heres how to do it :

Make the .dat file as normal.
If you open that in mapgen you will see that Home systems show, but no other systems show ( apart form a few at bottom of S4)

If you open the .dat file in a hex editor you will see that home systems are represented by value 81(Hex). Other systems should be 01. (00 is empty space where ther is no system)

There are 6F(Hex) header bytes,then the map detail starts at byte 70(hex) so system 1,1 is byte 70, system 1,2 is byte 71 etc...

So for example byte 70(hex) should be 01 instead of 00 because there is a system at 1,1.

To fix it you need a script or code to :

open map source file and extract all co-ordinate pairs (x,y)
Calculate the byte position for each of these co-ordinate pairs,
the byte postion is the value of x +((y-1)*30) plus the offset (6F hex)
so for example 1,1 is 1+111(6F hex) =112 (70 hex)
repeat for next (x,y) pair until all done.

Put all these values representing byte positions into an array.

open the .dat file and read bytes until the first byte position in your array (byte 112 (70 hex)).
If the byte at that posistion is zero change it to 01, otherwise leave it (home systems are 81 hex)

continue through to end of .dat file

Save new file

Done

This is a bit more balanced than Fox:

"Staffers for Al Franken, who once worried that the Minnesota Democrat would fall short against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman even after a recount, now seem optimistic that their candidate will be thrust into the lead before the recount even takes place.

The Franken team had their spirits bolstered today when it was announced that the deficit they face in their still-to-be-decided election against Norm Coleman was reduced by 100 votes.

A county official in Minnesota had accidentally entered 24 votes for Franken instead of 124 when he and other election officials submitted the tally at 5:25 A.M Wednesday. And so, the Democratic challenger is now just 237 votes behind the Republican incumbent. If history is any guide, the results could keep changing even before the state gets to its automatic recount.

Currently, Minnesota's 87 counties are conducting a review of their election results. During this process, the vote totals for the two candidates have gone up and down with some regularity. While Franken picked up 100 votes in Pine County, Coleman received 11 additional votes in Sherburne. In another county, absentee ballots were mistakenly typed in twice on election night, impacting 250 votes there.

Taken as a whole, the situation is far less stable than the Coleman campaign has been claiming. And it could get even cloudier.

During the 2006 Minnesota Senate race, the vote totals for both candidates changed far more drastically than the roughly 300-vote margin that currently separates the two candidates this year. In that election, Republican Mark Kennedy lost 3,520 votes between the day after the election and the final certification. Meanwhile, Democrat Amy Klobuchar lost 666 votes. All in all, the size of her victory actually went up by 2,854 votes.

If Franken does take the lead before the recount, his campaign can point to a statement made by Coleman just the other day in which he insisted that, were he in Franken's position, he would take himself out of the race.

If I were trailing, "I would step back," said the Senator. "I just think the need for a healing process is so important [and] the possibility that any change of magnitude is so remote."

I dont see too many "facts" in your posts, just opinion and generalisations.

Here's some "facts" for you

Although Greece is generally considered to be the birthplace of democracy, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that democracy existed in various forms long before the Athenians example. Your statement that "DEMOCRACY was not INTENDED for the WAY WE USE IT." is  nonsensical.

If you mean to say our democracy is not the way Athenians used democracy then say so.

Your anti democracy arguments are based on the premise that the US population is somehow not qualified, though lack of intelligenceor knowledge or lack of interest.

Well here another "fact" for you.

The anti democrats in Athens said much the same thing. Socrates and Plato "argued that the majority of the people, because they were by and large ignorant and unskilled, would always get it wrong."

Fact is that people the world over have fought long and hard throughout history for universal suffrage, and although its not perfect (8 years of bush for example) Its not something to be given up lightly.

Your anti democray arguments are not new, they have been aired many times and rejected. Like the republicans

Even if that were true, (which i dont accept) how does that help ?

We're taking about the electorate.

Im backing the Palin 2012 campaign

quite possible since the right wing is full of gun toting morons who spout democracy only when it suits them.

"I actually hope for a conflict between US and Iran"

I actually hope that one day you grow up and realise how much of an imbecile you have to be to wish for any war to happen.

Obama has inherited a pile of crap mostly made by Bush.

A war in iraq that most of america are against.

A huge Fiscal deficit run up by Bush

A world Financial crisis and impending depression.

His room for manoeuvre is very limited, I think a lot of people will be extremely disappointed if they expect major change.

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"Socialism = Nazi = Skinhead."

Fantastic logic there

are you a moron?

V kemp you're a rabid neo fascist who cant handle the fact that your party looks to be heading for defeat.

You are either a moron with a big mouth and no idea of what marxism actually is, or else you are deliberately lying with your pathetic claims.