Could different colored lines be drawn here, in the Galactic Map menu (F1), connecting all the places from my travel log? Perhaps even automatically plot future pathways to take, using some maze running algorithm that plots the straightest line, with only some or excluding certain other spectral star types etc...

Kinda like these.

It will not look like on your picture. Unlike space sim games, in SE you interstellar flights are not limited to the nearest stars. You can easily jump to another side of a galaxy and return back. Typical exploration scenario is clicking a random point in go there (with 90% probablilty it will be a giant star 1000+ light years away). Or search for a life terra using the star browser, which also could be hundreds of light years away. So your "flight path" will be very messy, especially if we taking into account possibility of intergalactic travels.

Sorry for long time before response guys, this is a lot of questions and took almost a hours for me to read through them and respond. I have no time to read the entire forum.

Wise versa, it's better to have ability to stream textures online, like Google Earth. Then SE distribution could shrink down to 300 MB.

That would be awesome! Eventually you might be able to download the 40 GB pack to have those textures offline.

SE does not support dynamic changes of the terrain. So those things are simply impossible to implement. Maybe one day in future...
And modelling of weather is too complex thing even with supercomputers. In SE it could be only faked somehow. Anyway, this is a task for a far future.

yes, I know climate computing is something  very hard to achieve realistically, that's why I said "simple", just use approximations of big weather systems, using vectors to indicate cloud movement 'n ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎. A lot of procedural generators that have planets have a very simple climate model.

You're wrong, moons of moons are not theoretically possible. Even for lightweight planet and very far moon, like our Earth's Moon, its satellite could exist just few years.

I've seen moons nearly 7 AU away from their planets in SE... but they were admittedly pretty small (largest was 4% the mass of Earth).

should SE have a discord?

Hiiii! Sorry if I suggested things that other peeps have suggested because I don't have the time to read them! Anyway, here are my suggestions.

• Be able to explore layers (Like mantles and cores) of planets (Such as showing it's composition, stripping of its layers, knowing what temp they are, etc.)
• Make Gas Giants more fun to explore (1 idea is to add the feature to dive deep down all the way into its core)
• Make some kinda option where you can view and explore elevation and landscape features, so you can know instantly know whether a planet is "fun" to explore
• Create the option to add rings, atmospheres, accretion discs, etc (cuz you can only do that by editing the scripts
• Add the abilities to remove shadows (so there would be no "dark side" of any planet)

@GS49

Look at the TODO list. There you have a comprehensive list of accepted suggestions. The vast majority of things that people propose are here before they aknowledge.

Be able to explore layers (Like mantles and cores) of planets (Such as showing it's composition, stripping of its layers, knowing what temp they are, etc.)
Make Gas Giants more fun to explore (1 idea is to add the feature to dive deep down all the way into its core)

Both of these ideas have been explored by SpaceEngineer (the reator of the software). He might eventually do that but it's a long way until SE reaches that point in developement.

Make some kinda option where you can view and explore elevation and landscape features, so you can know instantly know whether a planet is "fun" to explore

What does that mean? to have a coeficient of funnes for a planet?

Create the option to add rings, atmospheres, accretion discs, etc (cuz you can only do that by editing the scripts

This ability will eventually be developed.

Add the abilities to remove shadows (so there would be no "dark side" of any planet)

This is something you can do now. SE has this feature from several years. Just move the ambient light slider

Someone needs to be very creative to suggest some things for Space Engine. Almost every thing people suggest are already in Space Engineers mind and list. It's sad that this simulation can't be completed in a few years from now. I want to be helpful. That's why i follow this 'game' for years. Going to think of some ideas now.

Can there be a sort of 'flashlight' tool that would be a clickeable button on the UI that would illuminate the dark side of planets and the entirity of planemos at somepoint in the game? Is it possible for it to be implemented? 

Can there be a sort of 'flashlight' tool that would be a clickeable button on the UI that would illuminate the dark side of planets and the entirity of planemos at somepoint in the game? Is it possible for it to be implemented? 

You can already achieve this using ambient light.

I just experienced a "glitch in the Matrix" moment, and...

I think for rogue planets there should be an option called 'Flashlight' that is a button on the sidebar and bars on the bottom that when pressed, it would illuminate an entire rogue planet / moon  like it would if it had a sun, but all the way around.

Starlight Glimmer, you can already do this by increasing your Ambient light

Well, after a rough day this made me smile 

I just experienced a "glitch in the Matrix" moment, and...

I think for rogue planets there should be an option called 'Flashlight' that is a button on the sidebar and bars on the bottom that when pressed, it would illuminate an entire rogue planet / moon  like it would if it had a sun, but all the way around.

Starlight Glimmer, you can already do this by increasing your Ambient light

Well, after a rough day this made me smile 

It looks like someone is making suggestions and not checking responses...

I suggest that you put some more options in the filter of the star browser, especially that sorting planets by it's atmosphere component. For example, I'd like to look for planets with atmosphere carbon dioxide ratio less than 1%, and with oxygen more than 20%, etc. 
But anyway, it is indeed a merely perfect game. 
I love SpaceEngine.

My suggestion is that spaceships have interior. Something similar to first person, but with a lot details. Current Space Engine doesn't have concept of space and time for spaceships. Like, if I would advance time, spaceships would stay there as before. I know that this is going to be fixed in future, but I just want to point it here. I also posted on spaceships threat that I often use spaceships and suggested there this. Anyway, this is my suggestion for spaceships.