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Originally Posted by N1
Careful with those stars. They really upset the apple cart.
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The trick to adding stars is timing and placement.
Add them first and make the orbital radius as small as possible. The polar coordinates of the existing planet
when you introduce the star directly influences the extent to which its orbit is distorted. It's a curious thing, but if you bang a whole heap of 1m planets on the same orbital radius, they tend to shepherd each other. The heavier they are though, the less this works.
To see what I mean, select ice giants, put your mouse arrow just inside the 2AU boundary and add half a dozen planets on the same orbital radius. It doesn't matter how close together you get them.
If one planet is slower than the one behind it, the faster one will be pulled outwards and slows down, the slower one gets pulled inwards (towards the sun) and speeds up... they remain stable.
