Random Objects are still very irrational

[Gordon Freeman]

I think this has been a problem since Alpha 7 or 8, but random bodies still have insane and unrealistic tilt values and really, really long rotational periods.

The same ideas are persistent with random gas giants, but gas giants also have the additional problem of being tiny-- 5 or 6 earth masses at most as far as I've seen...

[Physics_Hacker]

I checked and the smallest gas giants are around 4 earth masses and the highest I've seen is about 6, rocky plamets go from 40 moons (uh which is still very very rare to get) up to 2.3 Earths, rocky planets should go up to about 5-6 earths, and gas giants should be from about 10 Earths to the Brown Dwarf limit of 13 jupiters, and the boundry for the Brown Dwarf -to- planet should be more smooth in temperature,  going from -273 C to somewhere in the 2000's C doesn't seem very realistic. ..

[Gordon Freeman]

5-6 earths is pretty huge for a rocky planet.. I think it should just be somewhere from a few tens of moon masses to maybe 3 or 4 earths.

There are some extrasolar gas giants that are about 5 or 6 earth masses. The current randomizer usually places gas giants at these masses and lower. While it's semi-realistic I think there should be much larger randomizations like 1 jupiter mass and upwards.

You're right. Larger gas giants undergo deuterium fusion, so they should be naturally hotter as they get closer to being brown dwarfs.


We should let the devs decide what's accurate though, since there has been a rocky planet recorded at 17 earths and such...

[Cryo]

5-6 earths is pretty huge for a rocky planet.. I think it should just be somewhere from a few tens of moon masses to maybe 3 or 4 earths.

There are some extrasolar gas giants that are about 5 or 6 earth masses. The current randomizer usually places gas giants at these masses and lower. While it's semi-realistic I think there should be much larger randomizations like 1 jupiter mass and upwards.

You're right. Larger gas giants undergo deuterium fusion, so they should be naturally hotter as they get closer to being brown dwarfs.


We should let the devs decide what's accurate though, since there has been a rocky planet recorded at 17 earths and such...

there will be so many  things to rewrite when we reach the stars....planetary formation being on of them and how gas giants and terrestrial planets form

[Gordon Freeman]

That would be accretion disks and protostars, not individual randomized stars.

[BlurryVortices]

I think this has been a problem since Alpha 7 or 8, but random bodies still have insane and unrealistic tilt values and really, really long rotational periods.

The same ideas are persistent with random gas giants, but gas giants also have the additional problem of being tiny-- 5 or 6 earth masses at most as far as I've seen...

Also, Random Rocky Planets are sometimes spawned with having a backwards rotation.

[BlurryVortices]

Read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant

[Gordon Freeman]

Also, Random Rocky Planets are sometimes spawned with having a backwards rotation.

There's no such thing as "backwards" rotation, only Retrograde in relative to the orbit of the planet and/or the rotation of the star.

Read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant

I think everyone here should know by heart what a gas giant is; why are you giving me this

[Physics_Hacker]

Also, Random Rocky Planets are sometimes spawned with having a backwards rotation.

There's no such thing as "backwards" rotation, only Retrograde in relative to the orbit of the planet and/or the rotation of the star.

Read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant

I think everyone here should know by heart what a gas giant is; why are you giving me this

I think the point of that was that what Universe Sanbox spawns right now are gas dwarves, no gas giants.

[BlurryVortices]

Also, Random Rocky Planets are sometimes spawned with having a backwards rotation.

There's no such thing as "backwards" rotation, only Retrograde in relative to the orbit of the planet and/or the rotation of the star.

Read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant

I think everyone here should know by heart what a gas giant is; why are you giving me this

I think the point of that was that what Universe Sanbox spawns right now are gas dwarves, no gas giants.

Exactly