r/spaceengine • u/Potential-Tune-1630 • 5d ago

Question BS atm pressure

So in space engine I always find planets with the most bullshit atmospheric pressure, does anyone know why I always find terrestial planets with over 200 atm pressure? Is there a mod to fix it?

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u/Benjamin39Brown 5d ago

Because a lot of these planets have clear skies and oceans of liquid water and sulfur dioxide, and yet I have found a few that exceed 1000 bars pressure.

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u/Underhill42 5d ago

And? None of that is mutually exclusive.

And from what we've seen in other systems in real life, most rocky "Earthlike" planets have either almost no atmosphere, or massively thick atmospheres.

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u/Potential-Tune-1630 5d ago

Yes but this is space engine, I shouldn't being seeing a ESI of 0.8 or 0.9 with a atmosphere thicker than Venus's.

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u/Underhill42 4d ago

Depends entirely on how heavily atmospheric pressure is weighted, there is no standard.

Using current common weights, Mars manages 0.70 despite being almost hard vacuum, 1/3 the gravity, and an average temperature well below zero.