House13Games t1_jaeb6ha wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:37 PM

Reply to comment by ChrisARippel in help in creating a space and board game by Dexters_Network

With realistic scale, Mercury will be about 0.5cm from the sun, and Nepture at 30cm. That's just the radius from the sun, so probably the biggest you wanna do for a normal table. You'll be needing a pin to place Mercury, rather than a square grid.

ChrisARippel t1_jaegn0r wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:12 PM

You are right that realistic scale creates problems because each planet further out is about twice as far as the planet further in.

Since I only just imagined the game in my head last night, I haven't played with "fixes". This is something that game designer would have to do.

Alterations might be to only use the four outer planets and stretch their au from the Sun less than double. And the board could be only half or a quarter of a full orbit.