my dream here is to have a lot of weird emergent behavior caused by the random variation (which follows a log-normal distribution)

I want titan-like seas of liquid methane, planets with crusts composed of 90% carbonate rocks, atmospheres that are primarily argon, etc

I'm already not that far off

the spacecraft is affected by gravity, I'm hoping to make it less confusing by adding UI/HUD elements

it currently accelerates very fast (100 km/s^2, or 10 000 Gs), otherwise interplanetary travel would take real life hours

I was struggling for hours yesterday to get this to work, but thankfully there was this super helpful forum thread from 2011:

www.gamedev.net/forums/topic...

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