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772k over 92 years. I just made a really tight binary system. I got bored after a while and added giant planets until I added juuuust too many

Second attempt is racking up around 600k/50 years and it's a dwarf star binary.

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18,260,000 at the 1000 year limit. Just restating till you get a starting planet in the habitable zone and adding the largest mass in a super tight binary is very stable.

I got it to 43M with this basic idea and some experimentation with starting planet distances. Getting the dwarf star stable relative to the planets in the habitable zone allows you to drop a few more Earths into the habitable zone and push the score up.

I did the same thing, with similar results: 17,398,525 points after 1100 years. It has to be pretty far into the habitable zone, though, and the dwarf star has to be in an uncomfortably-tight orbit, and timing probably matters a fair bit, too.

Putting dwarf stars on the outside produces some rather fun and funky orbits, though :)

EDIT: and I managed to accidentally (and disappointingly) produce a stable one with a far-orbiting dwarf star; 12,122,408 points at 1101.1 years.

27M points at 385.7 years. I added an ice giant at a 1:1 resonance with the highly elliptical orbit. Looks like it wasn't perfectly in resonance, but it was close enough to get the 385 years.

The scoring for the game should probably be points/year averaged out over the last decade. :)

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