Hello

I started a game on Fulgora, then moved on to Nauvis, where I encountered a problem.

I landed and walked around a bit to check out the surroundings.
When I returned to the starting lake (just 2-3 minutes later), the Bitters had already built a base between the starting lake and the resource patches... And the pod landing point is right next to them!
So I can't retrieve the items or develop, as I'm literally surrounded by nests :(

It's cool that the evolution factor increases over time, so that when you land with lots of technology, you don't find yourself facing little baby Bitters, but the expansion of their base should be frozen to avoid this kind of situation.

Now I'm in a bit of a pickle, because I had saved and the auto-saves don't go back far enough... I'm going to try to sneak up to a resource patch and build a car in the hope of being able to retrieve a pod with weapons... Otherwise, I'm afraid my game (with many hours of play already) will be completely lost :/

I hope you find a way to resolve this so that others do not end up in the same situation.

Screenshots -> https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/608c5c6f-1a8d-4d50-b256-83fff6ad5e5a

Hey, sorry you ran into that.
Evolution increasing on Nauvis despite not having traveled there is intentional, I left that in since biters would otherwise be way too weak once you landed there. That being said, I'm not sure if there's an easy way to prevent them from expanding to the middle after you land, I'm inclined to say that you got really, really unlucky with their initial expansion. Depending on when you land and how evolved they are, expansion could take up to an hour to happen, and at max evolution could be only 4 minutes. Not only did they expand immediately, they also chose the middle of the map where you were, instead of any of the surrounding area. Hopefully you're able to recover everything, that does sound awful to deal with.

Hi,

I hope you're right and that this won't happen to others.

I finally managed to build a car, and after several attempts, I managed to recover a weapon pod.

Thank you for your reply and for your great mod :)

Nice! Glad you were able to recover, and no problem!