Not really that inexplicable, it’s a video game. It’s not for computational reasons, but to make gameplay easier to reason about; because again, it’s a video ga

Not really that inexplicable, it’s a video game. It’s not for computational reasons, but to make gameplay easier to reason about; because again, it’s a video game. The mechanics are simplified, yes, but patched conics is quite a good approximation for many cases, and great for developing an intuition for the basics. There is a mod that includes n-body calculations called Principia if you’re interested in that.