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This is how I know I don't understand Gravity

Anubis said:
im not even sure how to play this, I can put 12 "earths" and it will just go on forever
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Your goal is to get as high of a score in 500 years time. If any bodies crash, it's game over.

Larger planets or stars get you more points per year, but also cause a lot of changes in orbit.
 
767k over 2.3 years

Tried again over break for something that was actually stable: 85.5 mil over 473 years.
 
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Anubis said:
im not even sure how to play this, I can put 12 "earths" and it will just go on forever
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Yup, but you don't get a very good score. I did that first thing, I only got about 90-100k doing that.

Some guy on the page had a high score over 269M. Not sure how that's possible.


Also.. Not sure why filling it up with large planets/more stuff is "better", per se. Like a person above only lasted a few years, but got 73k, whereas I could fit 12 earths in and let it go for 500yr, but barely get a better score.
 
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I have trouble visualizing the gravity well around an object. 2D and 2.5D I'm fine with, but full 3D gives me trouble.
 
z1ggy said:
Yup, but you don't get a very good score. I did that first thing, I only got about 90-100k doing that.

Some guy on the page had a high score over 269M. Not sure how that's possible.


Also.. Not sure why filling it up with large planets/more stuff is "better", per se. Like a person above only lasted a few years, but got 73k, whereas I could fit 12 earths in and let it go for 500yr, but barely get a better score.
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Not better, just more difficult, hence higher point total.
 
Where's the fun if you don't get to see the puny inhabitants scream in terror as their planet is about to crash into something large enough to vaporize it?
 
I had well over a million points, but didn't last that long. If the current simulation finishes, I'll have around 10 million points at 500 years.

I'm thinking if I can get a dwarf stars, with 2 brown dwarfs at the stable Lagrangian points... Trying that next.
 
DrPizza said:
I had well over a million points, but didn't last that long. If the current simulation finishes, I'll have around 10 million points at 500 years.

I'm thinking if I can get a dwarf stars, with 2 brown dwarfs at the stable Lagrangian points... Trying that next.
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If you can get a dwarf star with a couple more earths you are pretty much guaranteed an 8 digit score.

I just did one of each of the big bodies (minus the dwarf star) and filled in the rest with earths and I'm looking at about 6 mil if it finishes.

edit: ended up with 5.6mil. Really need to get the dwarf star in the mix. Not sure how people got 290mil, maybe added 10 dwarfs? I'm lucky to get one in there without messing up the default earth.
 
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I initially opened this on a tablet, where it let me essentially pair stars as super-close binary systems. Two stars and one Earth netted like 10m points.

On my desktop, it will not let me get their orbits as close.
 
1 dwarf star in habitable zone and 1 brown dwarf tight to center star plus the starting earth between the two = 15.8M @ 500.2 years. Crowding multiplier was 1.0-1.3. Had the dwarf a bit tighter but still in habitable zone for a crowding multiplier of 1.4+ and got to 20M+ @ 476 years.
 
Damn was going to get over 100 mil and I lost one at 360 years and 89 mil.

Yay I got 100 mil this time! 113.9 mil @ 394 years.
 
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lxskllr said:
I have trouble visualizing the gravity well around an object. 2D and 2.5D I'm fine with, but full 3D gives me trouble.
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That's because there is no gravity "well". Gravity is simply the effect of a large mass blocking the effects of all the matter in the universe behind said mass.

Visualize all the matter in the universe pushing onto an object. It is a force that is equal on all sides, until you introduce a large mass. The large mass blocks one side, reducing the "radiation pressure" from that side, causing the object to "fall" towards the large mass. Gravity isnt a local attraction. The earth does not pull or tug on the apple. It is the sum total of all the matter in the universe that causes the apple to fall to the earth. This "radiation pressure" is transmitted by speherical waves, emanating out from every subatomic particle, and received by every subatomic particle. These particles are nothing more than spherical standing waves.
 
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