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Have fun with the System Editor, that's nearly a minigame.

A shame that bigger systems/planets give me the feeling I'm watching a slide show, not playing a game.

 Melissia wrote:
Oh? Neat. Looks much more intuitive and less stupid than Sins' system editor.

Mind you, that's not very hard, considering how unintuitive and stupid Sins' system editor is.

Never bothered myself with the Sins' editor, but yes, this editor is quite intuitive.

You start with a sun as your systems centre and then you can set up your planets. You have several diffrent biome types (Earth, Desert, Ice, Tropical, Metal, Lava, Moon).
Each planet has it's own orbit, which you can cange, around the centre you choose. You can make a planet go around the sun and then make a planet go around the first planet and a moon go around the second planet. Followed by a second moon go around the first planet.

Still trying to get them to crash into each other by changing their orbital path, but somehow they know what I want and deny me my fun.

You can change for every single planet/moon several stats (like radius, temperature, etc.). I still don't know what every little button does, but it sure makes fun setting up planets and then trying to play on them only to see your system crash because you have not the necessary processing power.

At the moment, sadly no. The Biome type you use affects your base temperature, you can manually change it after setting up the planet. Maybe this will change before release.

Here's a screen for the planet template bar


Planet edit menu


and for fun, a lava planet orbited by a moon and a earth-like planet, which is orbited by a second moon. Sadly you only see the orbital path of the selected planet. With the little blue dot on a white line you can change the orbital path.



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And here the diffrence between planet radius 200 (smallest for planets)


and radius 2000 (biggest)


Needed 3min to process the preview for the big one.

 Minx wrote:
Are all the orbits circular and in a single plane? And do the different planets/moons affect each other (and the sun)?

Single plane & the only affect you can see is the way the shadows fall. No tides. Tides and diffrent orbital planes would be cool, as would many other things coming through star constellations and such, but it's just a strategy game, not a galaxy simulator.