solar flares!!

[TheImperialGamer]

I know this has been suggested like a million times over, but my golly, imagine the amount of things you could do with stars whenever they add the ability to simulate a solar flare and have it effect a planet or moon or whatever. Especially for stars like EV Lacertae, the star that emits solar flares that are tens of thousands of times more powerful than the Sun's solar flares.. it would be awesome!

Really hope that they'll be one of the updates in the 2024 roadmap! Not only that, but this would make magnetospheres not be useless in this game.

[bshapiroalbert]

Thanks for the suggestion. We don't have any plans to make solar flares anything other than a visual effect in Universe Sandbox right now, but that doesn't mean we'll never improve them.

Before we could add a simulated effect like solar flares, we want to overhaul our star simulation so that we can add more basic things like stellar evolution. That's something we want to do, but is a big project that we don't have a timeline for right now. We have a lot of other projects we're working on at the moment, and you can learn more about them in our 2024 Roadmap post
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/230290/view/6501581293008131627

[TheImperialGamer]

Originally posted by bshapiroalbert:

Thanks for the suggestion. We don't have any plans to make solar flares anything other than a visual effect in Universe Sandbox right now, but that doesn't mean we'll never improve them.

Before we could add a simulated effect like solar flares, we want to overhaul our star simulation so that we can add more basic things like stellar evolution. That's something we want to do, but is a big project that we don't have a timeline for right now. We have a lot of other projects we're working on at the moment, and you can learn more about them in our 2024 Roadmap post
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/230290/view/6501581293008131627

Thank you for your response. I agree it would be a better idea to start off with the basic stuff first. Stars have really been needing improvements for a while now, and gas giants have been needing them too. Maybe the Solar Flares will come in the 2025 roadmap? Who knows! But either way, the wait will be worth it!