Initially I registered here for only one question. It was here:
https://forum.spaceengine.org/viewtopic ... 790#p37790
I wanted to know about "forester" systems in SE. A year ago there was a blogpost
http://spaceengine.org/news/blog201113
which said that "Fixed giant-terra-giant-terra meander sequence in procedural planetary systems," but there was no explanation of what does it mean. Should they no longer exist in SE or became somehow better.
Nobody noticed the question, it was totally ignored. After 2 months I wrote the developer in PM with it.
He answered:
Current SE version have a strange behaviur of procedural planet generator which very often creates systems which looks like terra - giant - terra - giant - terra - giant. This is not realistic obviuosly, in the 0.991 branch I fixed this by tweaking the procedural generator. This does not mean that such systems will not be generated anymore, just that their probability will be much lower than now (much lower than 90% lol).
So he said such systems are now rare.
But this is not the solution because actually there can be no such systems at all. I wrote one more PM but it was never read because developer does not develop anymore and does not visit the forum. So I will just leave it here for the others:
Let's recall Phaeton - it simply could not form due to the gravitational influence of Jupiter. A nearby giant does not allow a small planet to form or survive. And SE generator shows a picture of when such a planet can form between two Jupiters. And this happens 3-5 times in one system. This is totally impossible. There can be no giant-terra-giant-terra, can be only giant-belt-giant-belt instead.