Is there a way to make gas giants not be tiny or small?

As I have problems with Ice worlds having 169*C temps. Shouldn't that be -X*C?

Or rock planets with an atmosphere next to a sun (inner orbit) with -50*C ?

Are things kinda mixed up? Or is it just this wacky Quadrant we all live in!??

JosEPh

"Old and slow.....Watch out!"

Don't worry about it too much, once we get out into the stars we are going to find far weirder stuff. Its going to be stranger than we can possible imagine.

Does ice imply solid-state H2O?

Also, what distances to the hexes represent? I've been assuming 1 AU, which would, in that light, mean it is very plausible. Maybe not likely, but plausible.

I would imagine that an ice world can be a frozen body of multiple composition. Some of our own gas giants actually have cores of liquid hydrogen and metallic hydrogen. I wonder how dense metallic hydrogen is? Might make good hull armor. Cordas is correct that we'll discover some really strange stuff as we explore the depths of space. Heck we already have.
Omnius

Yes; in a mod folder (never mod stock data files), just delete all tiny and small Gas Giant entries from StellarObjectTypes.txt.

You can alter the temperature formula in Formulas.txt. You can use PlanetAtmosphereName as a variable, so there is probably something for planet type you could use in IFF calls to set it up by type.

Hydrogen is a nonmetal. It can, however, be ionically bonded with a metal. Crystallized hydrogen itself has a very light density, 0.088 gm/cm3, meaning it'll float in just about everything except other phases of hydrogen.

My chemistry, however, sucks. I'm more of a Physics person.

At extreme presures & low temperitures such as found in the cores of Gas giants hydrogen will behave like a metal.

"Metallic hydrogen" is a specific form of hydrogen found only at ridiculously high pressure.