The inner part rotates once per day and creates artificial days/nights.
The outer part rotates once per minute and creates 1G "gravity."

If your inner ring is meant to produce 12 hours of daylight, and 12 hours of night, then the inner and outer ring need to rotate at almost exactly the same rate.

Consider: the outer, inhabited ring rotates 1440 times a day (60 minutes * 24 hours). The inner ring would need to rotate 1439 or 1441 times in that same period so that its *relative* rotational speed differs from the outer ring by only one rotation per day.

The way you have it in the diagram, the outer ring would experience 1439 day/night cycles in 24 hours.

Or am I overlooking something?

things like multiplayer and single player and custom addons in the long may conflict a bit

if you had lots of custom addons installed it may be complicated to get the other players to be able to work with them as well.

For the VARIES concept, a starship would accelerate to the target solar system and decelerate using it’s onboard supply of fuel. At the target system, the starship would assume a stable orbit close to the systems star. Vast solar panels, hundreds of square kilometers in area would unfurl, and capture energy from the star. This sunlight would be converted into laser energy which would then be used to create antimatter from the vacuum of space via the Schwinger pair production mechanism. Once a sufficient amount of antimatter is created and stored, the VARIES would then be adequately fueled to begin its return trip, presumably back to Earth, where it would then decelerate, allowing future interstellar explorers with a possible way to return to Earth.

One critical and unique component to the VARIES architecture is our proposal that proton-antiproton pair creation can be generated from the vacuum, given a sufficiently powerful electric field. Spontaneous particle creation from the vacuum by an external electric field has been applied to numerous problems in contemporary particle physics, including black hole quantum evaporation and electron-positron creation in the vicinity of charged black holes.

less practical than simply capturing antimatter from the radiation belts