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TL;DR

In space platform view the star parallax should be reduced to be slower than the planet's.

What?

When scrolling around the space platform view the background stars move at an implausible speed
as if they were closer to the platform than the planet itself.

Attached are two videos, first shows the ingame version, second is an example 3D scene with similar composition.
Notice that as I am moving the view up in the game (the planet and stars are moving down) the stars which are above the planet are "moving closer" to the planet. Whereas in the 3D example as I move the view up the stars "move away".

My suggestion is to slow down the star parallax speed to be less than the planet's and hence be believable.
I'm NOT suggesting to disable star parallax completely.

Why?

Because the current behaviour is confusing and disorienting because it's geometrically impossible.
Even if the player is not familiar with perspective the current behaviour could feel off without being able to explain why.
I noticed this effect immediatelly after entering the view for the first time.

+1

It's also a very easy fix, all you have to do is change this value to a lower value like 0.1

Here's a better comparison.

I played around with scroll_factor and star_parallax and it does not seem to have an effect on the planet. All scroll_factor settings I tested from 0.001 to 2 have the same result regarding planet visibility on my larger ships when I move to the front of the ship, the planet always disappears at the same point.

Because the setting I mentioned affects the stars in the background, not the planet.