Democratic Worldbuilding / Planning New Game

What about weird celestial bodies that orbit the body which the habitated planet orbits? (Or which orbit the planet itself)

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The latter will be possible in a moon vote.

Star class vote!

  • F: great for harsh summers, long years
  • G: like the sun, normal
  • K: fast orbit, highly habitable
  • Red dwarf: normally tidally locked, short years
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Tell me if the approval vote works. If you disapprove of them all or approve of them all, don’t vote (yes that’s how I’m doing it).

  • I would like the star to have a partner
  • No, that’s a bad idea
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If binary wins we’ll do a vote on that too.

Then planet type!

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A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE

Binaries while they work in pairs and can be same type one of them has to be ever so slightly bigger to dominate the system eventually it becomes another type due to have big the first one has to be to host smaller stars under it

Doesn’t affect binary systems but if it goes too big into tri and quad the effects starts to show

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I am aware. We’ll do a vote to see if the stars are next to each other, and if they are the only options will be smaller than whatever wins. If they aren’t next to each other, it doesn’t much matter the size of the star. (Think Proxima Centauri. Ita orbiting a much more massive binary system, but it’s planet doesn’t much care who’s orbiting who.)

Edit: you might be talking about something else but I think it won’t be too worrying if so ?

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I think we’re on the same page, I merely wanted to inform if it somehow enters into quandary (if even possible for life at that stage) the first star binary pair has to be much more massive and have more mass then the secondary binary pair, or example for binary one of the stars has slightly more mass then its sibling star. Whenever or not people choose long distant or close binary or indeed it somehow goes to a trinary a close pair and a distant third.

Either way time to watch the polls go for which star

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I hope that we don’t end up voting for underwater sentient plants or something when we get to the species selection stage.

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Oh someone is troll voting for underwater civs, if no one else does, I will

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Funny enough there might be lesser moons for the planet or non at all given how far it can go away from its sun

(Lets hope a rouge gas giant doesn’t pick it up)

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There will definitely be a sibling star! I don’t think anything other than people undoing their votes could let single star win, so I’m closing it and opening the second star polls!

Here’s a picture from wikipedia, hopefully you understand the difference between P and S type planets in binary systems. If our planet orbits just one it will be the winner of the star class vote (K type likely). Otherwise it will vote multiple.

  • S type (orbiting the winner of the poll)
  • P type (orbiting both stars)
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And an optional third star.

  • Distant, unimportant third star (Yeah, trinary can actually win)
  • Two is enough, trinary didn’t win
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Edit: ties tend to last a long time once we’re past 8 voters. So, we’re breaking out a tiebreaker.

tiebreaker
  • primary star is K type: only allowed near partners are dwarfs
  • primary star is F type: dwarfs or K/maybe G
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Far partners can be anything that won’t kill everyone (hypergiants tend to explode)

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Third star filled with megastructures?

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this is really feeling like that one quirky system in universe sandbox that it’s obrigatory to visualize it paused, otherwise the habitable planet with life would be either ejected from orbit or burned in high temperatures

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oh yeah I’m totally making this in universe sandbox. I might actually use that to tell how long the orbits/periods of various sorts will be to avoid having to do math lmao. sadly the laptop i’ve got right now runs the game horrendously, intel UHD is not actually capable of UHD, or even really FHD if you like demanding-ish games. I.e. any screenshots will be 720p.

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You mean of the species we will put on the specified planet or of an alien civ?

I’d assume alien civ, but if it’s our civ they can put megastructures everywhere.

distant unimportant third star seems to be winning. Disregard this poll if it looses, but here. Sorry for all the parallel polls, we have a ton of stuff going on in this system. When it comes to other planets I’ll probably post like a ton of polls at once while we do more important stuff one at a time.

  • White dwarf (dim)
  • Brown dwarf (dim)
  • Red dwarf (less dim)
  • K-type (pleasant and orange)
  • G-type (averageish)
  • F-type (brightish)
  • A-type (not long lived enough for life, but say, our system starts orbiting it right after it forms, a little before the Cambrian explosion, plenty of time? Quite bright)
  • Black hole (quasars aren’t happening, for reasons)
  • Neutron star
  • Weird stuff like a white hole or quark star
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anything missing? did it make the poll badly?

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Alien civ, and they are actually the remnamts of a galaxy sized warship, whose sapient automated systems are now defending it and rebuilding it (but on a smaller scale).

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galaxy size is… bit much. Could be fun to have an alien wreckage in the solar system. feels a bit too spore-y to me but that only really applies if it doesn’t go lovecraft or extreme dedication to science with it. the crossover, of course, being the expanse. edit: the alien stuff in the expanse isn’t that dedicated to science, but it’s more than spore

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They needed it to kill an even bigger being (The Great Attractor?!) but failed.

When you find the sweet spot pleease send the data to me so i can recreate it on space engine for absolute no reason excerpt to look cool

lmaoo I’d love to see someone try to fight the great attractor, heh. Anywho I feel basically anyone would be better served with billions of solar system sized vessels. they could be orbited by millions of motherships the size of pluto, or billions of munitions or self replicators. yk the old “the empire was dumb, with the effort to make the death star they could have made enough star destroyers to rule the entire outer rim and chase down every rebel” which of course, ignores the obvious, they should have used Venators.

yep, if I make it, I will

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Yeah but big = cool.

Also you could just say that the weapons needed were too big and required proportionally sized energy systems to be fired.

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