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Don't know if is interesting for us, but there's a new MIT licenced physics engine that seems to excite people a lot, called Box3D
Might be an overkill, but to my naive eyes it looks rather capable.

I think this would be a good thing to have, it can provide meaningful gameplay and points of decisions. But there should be either a slider, or a toggle for this in the options, since this is dealing with player time in a very direct manner. My guess is that if it is nicely balanced, then a checkmar...

Terrain studio, an open source terrain authoring thing. Runs in a browser.
Source code

Ouch. Forensinc scooping. Does sound interesting

Another interesting noise based erosion method. Sans simulation, so it might be applicable to our case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V21_uUK8Y

The trust issue is already solved by having an acceleration cap for each ship and direction. Partially due to structural limits, partially due to human tolerances. Sure, you can overload your ship a bit, but most of them are set up in a way that you can still produce 1.5 gee-ish up acceleration. And...

Out intent is not to make a modernized Frontier clone, and wasn't for a while now. But to make a good space game, while not forgeting our Frontier roots. The equipment issues are due to the whole thing being in a transitional state, and the aim is that you can use the cabin space for additional purp...

You mean the orbital/system map, right? I agree, it would be useful to have a center button there.
The sector map already has this functionality (C)

I drop this here as well, might be interesting:
Hesiod, a node based terrain generator.

This one looks interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y19Mw5YsgjI
An overview of how Townscaper and some others work.
Part procedural, part hand-made generators.