I was hoping if you could explain that on the Loremakers or here in Ask the Devs. The question is about the size of star systems with the AU numbers. After my research I found out that our Sol system have 51 AU, most of the Star Citizen systems I checked have been smaller, even as small as 8 AU. It would be nice to have a good explanation about the star system size.asked by RufusUltra
TL;DRSystem sizes are set during initial lore creation to balance real-world physics with playability, generally averaging between 5 and 15 AU but ranging far outside that.
Well, like I said before, Star Citizen size is something we do decide on during the initial lore process when we're coming up with the system. We want our star systems to reflect both real world physics and playability. So we want something that takes both of these into account so you actually enjoy yourself when you're playing the game. The systems themselves are designed to stay within a rough range that keeps them small enough that they can work with the technology that we have, but they're large enough so you can actually enjoy being in them and exploring them.So we have a little balance between fiction and reality. which is something we've done with the systems in the past like Vega for example: there is a real star Vega, which is an A-type main sequence star in the lyra constellation. However our star: Vega, an ingame star that's made up completely for the game is a G-type main sequence star much like our own sun. So that I feel like that's a really good example of the balance we strike between what is real and what is in our game, but takes inspiration from reality.
And I think that also kind of... that's this games niche that I think it does so well is the consistency that it keeps between pure simulation and pure game and it has this beautiful in between kind of towards the simulation, but it still has so many of those game aspects that makes it fun to play and that's what kind of makes this game I think, it's going to be pretty special and awesome.
So to answer the core of your question. Our system are a wide range of sizes, but they generally like some of very small, some of very big, generally we go between I'd say between 5 and 15 AU on average, but they can range far outside of those.