Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: February 15, 2007, 06:02:44 PM »Quote
But gravity drops in proportion to distance squared. A star with the mass of 60 suns would have the same gravitaional effect at 7.7 LY as the sun has at 1.
None the less your system generation system is great, I just think whatever math its based on might not apply at the extremes And this is an extreme star!
It is, although there are larger and rarer monsters hiding away in the database. I think you are right about the maths starting to break down at the extremes though. Probably the easiest thing is to reflect current scientific thinking and remove any planets from very high mass stars. Any such planets would be too far away to be useful in the game anyway.
Steve