Organized Solar System


Automatically organizes the positions of vanilla and modded solar system planets to better reflect the Space Age gameplay progression. The radial distances of planets are unchanged. Their angles are specified by a number called the 'tier', which can be overridden by the mod author. Tiers run from 0 (north of the star) anticlockwise to 6 (north-east of the star). Mods with no tier anssigned appear vertically below the sun.

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g Planet Overlap

2 months ago

I tried installing this mod, mostly because I was unhappy with low tiered planets being unreachable as no space lane was made. But with it, I now have an overlap. https://imgur.com/a/RVuK9wS
Just under Close Sun Orbit is Sun Orbit, which is in the exact same spot as Moshine.

Though looking at the map it generated, this won't entirely fix the problem either. The Sun Orbits can't be used in person or your platform gets blown up by script, which means planets like Gleba are not reachable early at all. This at least looks beatable, whereas just pure space lanes redrawn creates an impossible configuration with my installed planets.

2 months ago

A later version of this mod will make planet positions ‘repel’ each other, spreading them out more evenly.

For Gleba specifically, although it isn’t yet elegant, you may wish to use the checkbox option to ensure the vanilla planets get connected.

2 months ago

The other thing to note is, since moshine and the sun orbitals appear vertically below the star, their tiers are unassigned and I would appreciate suggestions on them (particularly the sun orbitals.)

2 months ago

"Sun Orbit" requires Metallurgic Science to get and an EM plant to make any use out of it other than an automated shipping lane. Close Sun Orbit should probably only ever connect to Sun Orbit. Hope that helps.

2 months ago
(updated 2 months ago)

For Gleba specifically, although it isn’t yet elegant, you may wish to use the checkbox option to ensure the vanilla planets get connected.

There do not appear to be any options at all for this mod. Searching the settings menu for "System", "Organized" or "Tier" all yield no related results.
Edit: Brainfart, I disabled the mod due to the overlap mentioned and forgot about it. Obviously one does not find settings for disabled mods.

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