Posted by: AtomikKrab
« on: April 08, 2010, 08:45:21 PM »Asteriod #3, it had some good minerals so dropped a mining colony and renamed it
then asteriod belt should be several thousand instead of what it is, minimum size rules are good... although i'd like to see ceres.The number of asteroids is a compromise between reality and playability. Ceres is there but it isn't specifically named. Look for a 900+ km diameter asteroid in the Mars - Jupiter belt. That is Ceres.
Just curious, scrolling through looking at Sol's system info.The Sol System isn't an example of Aurora's system generation as I typed it into the database . Pluto should probably be changed to a chunk.
Pluto is listed as a terrestrial with 0.08 gravity and a diameter of 2,302km
However, two moons are listed as being larger but still are defined as chunks. Perhaps this leads into the "Pluto shouldn't be classified as a planet" discussion but I'm just curious what the cutoff point was:
Triton - 0.18 gravity, 2,704km diameter
Europa - 0.15 gravity, 3,130km diameter
Now Io is the smallest "terrestrial" in Sol, so I'm guessing that with these stats:
Io - 0.18 gravity, 3,660km
the cutoff is 3,500km (to keep things round)
I have no idea if this means anything, but just noticed it and thought I'd ask.