Cooling rate of stuff.

[DrSauce]

I'm not complaining .

But it seems that stuff just cools up too fast after impacts. For instance earth can go from a molten world back to a planet with oceans in a year. Huge craters cool in months or something like that. My guess is that it would last quite a bit. I'm no geologist or astrophysician though.

This makes me think also, as a suggestion, how about a "nuclear winter" atmosphere after impacts big enough?

[Gordon Freeman]

I'm not complaining .

Certainly sounds like you are at first since I read the subject as "Coding Rate of Stuff". XD

But it seems that stuff just cools up too fast after impacts. For instance earth can go from a molten world back to a planet with oceans in a year. Huge craters cool in months or something like that. My guess is that it would last quite a bit. I'm no geologist or astrophysician though.

Well, with the atmosphere blown away, I think molten planets could easily give off all their heat via luminal emission, but I don't think the cooldown would be that fast.

This makes me think also, as a suggestion, how about a "nuclear winter" atmosphere after impacts big enough?

Would require atmospheric mechanics, which I heard Dan said wouldn't be looked at for the time being.

[smjjames]

Actualy, they seem to heat up too fast or too much sometimes.

[DrSauce]

Would require atmospheric mechanics, which I heard Dan said wouldn't be looked at for the time being.

As something real quick for visuals you could just affect the opacity of the atmosphere mesh.

[Jar]

We've tweaked the cool-down timing for impacts and crater glows, so you should see this in the next update.

Getting the timing right for all of these factors is an ongoing process.

[DrSauce]

Yeah, I'm guessing it's a lot of back and forth.

Anyway I like it a lot.... Any plans to implement stuff like the roche limit?

[smjjames]

Yes there are plans to implement the roche limit

They're still working on the fragmenting part of it though.