Some funny things to try out?

[CrazedSwede]

I recently bough this and as im easily affected by buyers remorse i need to do stuff in this game to make the purchase worthwhile.

I have some ideas but can anyone tell me some funny things to try out in the game?

[AliAnDro]

Shot Planets, moons and that at the speed of light at planets?!

[Addie]

There's a lot of built in simulations that give you a starting point to play around with. Open them up, watch them run, and start tinkering with things to see what happens.

Gravity is a pretty fun thing to play with. For instance, I like to make a new simulation, create a body like Earth, put a moon around it, and add some rings. If you increase or reduce the mass, you'll see the ring changing shape, and it will get disturbed by the nearby moon. You'll get all sorts of interesting patterns and swirls forming.

I could play with just the ring particles all day, I think everyone has their own favorite activity. Loading up the random body sims, like Earth and Many moons is cool too. You get see what eventually happens and forms from all the chaotic orbits and planets smashing eachother to pieces.

[CrazedSwede]

Originally posted by C7:

There's a lot of built in simulations that give you a starting point to play around with. Open them up, watch them run, and start tinkering with things to see what happens.

Gravity is a pretty fun thing to play with. For instance, I like to make a new simulation, create a body like Earth, put a moon around it, and add some rings. If you increase or reduce the mass, you'll see the ring changing shape, and it will get disturbed by the nearby moon. You'll get all sorts of interesting patterns and swirls forming.

I could play with just the ring particles all day, I think everyone has their own favorite activity. Loading up the random body sims, like Earth and Many moons is cool too. You get see what eventually happens and forms from all the chaotic orbits and planets smashing eachother to pieces.

Cool!

[Prometheus_Unbound]

Best advice i can give is just play with random stuff. Open up an objects settings and see what happens if you give it an atmoshphere. Blow a planet like earth up and then rapidly cool whats left. If you do it right you will see another world appear. Try and see if you can set it up just right so it will naturally reform after its cooled. It was like something from a sci-fi movie.
In fact it was almost like seeing a primordial earth.
Eventually you will realise what certain settings do and then you get the notion in your head you might be able to terraform mars or something like that.

[Mousey]

I heard that planets can generate life if the conditions are correct, I am just screwing with dead stars' seeing if i can earthify em.

[Keet Retol]

I could understand disappointment if you were buying the game for the explosions. Even though they did a really good job on those, you can only watch Earth get smashed so many times. But if you bought the game for gravity (like I did), then there's a ton of stuff to do. Here's some things I did

• Experiment with how close a black hole can get before it pulls planets from orbit (one version I did was to see how large a black hole would be needed to pull planets from orbit if the black hole lies past the Kuiper belt, and past scattered disk objects)
  
• Simulate Nemesis[en.wikipedia.org]
  
• See how Earth's orbit would be affected if another Mars/Earth sized planet materialized in the inner solar system (one experiment I did along these lines was seeing how Earth's orbit would be affected if there were another Earth at the same distance apparent[scifi.stackexchange.com] in Another Earth[www.imdb.com])
  
• See what would happen to Earth if a rogue planet[en.wikipedia.org] went shooting past

Oh, and they added a Pluto flyby simulation in the last update. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

[CrazedSwede]

Originally posted by keet_retol:

I could understand disappointment if you were buying the game for the explosions. Even though they did a really good job on those, you can only watch Earth get smashed so many times. But if you bought the game for gravity (like I did), then there's a ton of stuff to do. Here's some things I did

• Experiment with how close a black hole can get before it pulls planets from orbit (one version I did was to see how large a black hole would be needed to pull planets from orbit if the black hole lies past the Kuiper belt, and past scattered disk objects)
  
• Simulate Nemesis[en.wikipedia.org]
  
• See how Earth's orbit would be affected if another Mars/Earth sized planet materialized in the inner solar system (one experiment I did along these lines was seeing how Earth's orbit would be affected if there were another Earth at the same distance apparent[scifi.stackexchange.com] in Another Earth[www.imdb.com])
  
• See what would happen to Earth if a rogue planet[en.wikipedia.org] went shooting past

Oh, and they added a Pluto flyby simulation in the last update. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

Nah i love this "game".
I just suffer buyers remorse whenever i buy everything so i though a funny way of feeling more secure is trying some new things out.

[Plasmawario]

My favorite thing to do is change plutos mass to 15000 suns and watch it devour the universe

[Calandiva]

my favourite thing to do is to switch some of the planets in the solar system with planets in my own, custom system. results: placing a 4,6 Earth-massed super Mercury in mercury's orbit makes Venus go eccentric, placing a T-type-60J massed brown dwarf in Saturn's orbit makes everything go crazy.

[Calandiva]

Originally posted by Plasmawario:

My favorite thing to do is change plutos mass to 15000 suns and watch it devour the universe

well, ive made Eta Carinae A have 205,000,000 solar masses and it only wrecked its neighbourhood, so that must have been a small universe.

[Red]

I like trying to make complex solar systems.
So like a planet orbiting a star, which orbits another star also with planets. Which then sort of trade planets around as they pass.
The challange is getting something stable that doesn't eventually result in a collision.

Sometimes i just like making patterns with trail lines.

[Prometheus_Unbound]

Not so much funny, as interesting. I like to make two galaxies collide. (like the Milky Way and Andromeda collision) But making sure that in doing so, rather than everything flying off, i introduce a large (high mass) black hole somewhere close enough to attract the matter so that it reforms the colliding galaxies into a new, if chaotic, galaxy. It can be very beautiful.

[SpaceDorito92]

I like to crush moons into the roche limit to see what happend