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Originally Posted by scc
I've just generated data for the 4th star (Skipped the 3rd, the 4th is closer to what I've generated so far) And assuming that I've done things properly the outer two most orbits get more heating from the other stars.
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If they are, your system isn't stable. If all the stars were the same luminosity/mass, the heating and gravity from each star would vary exactly the same way, and a planet getting more heat from a second star is also more strongly attracted to that second star, and thus isn't orbiting the first. That L/M ratio isn't constant, so it's theoretically possible this could happen, but the perturbations would be so huge every planetary year the orbit couldn't possibly be constant over long periods.
Your stars are still 150 plus AU apart right? Unless your "outermost" orbits are enormous you probably have a math error.