Binary/trinary systems have three rather glaring issues at the moment.
1) In circumbinary systems (where all the planets orbit both stars), the stars at the center of the system are often off-center, which really looks awkward. Ideally they should be spaced fairly evenly apart, with the planets clearly orbiting their barycenter. See the next post for an example.
2) In non-circumbinary systems, all the planets have their day side facing the center of the system, even if they're orbiting stars B or C. This is a tad immersion-breaking. @Guraan suggested this might be fixed at some point, but that was a year ago... (I know, he said no promises)
3) While planets orbiting stars B and C have the stars in their name (Alpha Centauri B IV, for example), planets orbiting star A do not (Alpha Centauri III, for example). This one is easy to fix, see my bug report.
The second and third problems can be seen in the following screenshot:
1) In circumbinary systems (where all the planets orbit both stars), the stars at the center of the system are often off-center, which really looks awkward. Ideally they should be spaced fairly evenly apart, with the planets clearly orbiting their barycenter. See the next post for an example.
2) In non-circumbinary systems, all the planets have their day side facing the center of the system, even if they're orbiting stars B or C. This is a tad immersion-breaking. @Guraan suggested this might be fixed at some point, but that was a year ago... (I know, he said no promises)
3) While planets orbiting stars B and C have the stars in their name (Alpha Centauri B IV, for example), planets orbiting star A do not (Alpha Centauri III, for example). This one is easy to fix, see my bug report.
The second and third problems can be seen in the following screenshot:
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