Safer Asteroids

by Kryzeth

Reduces the maximum size of dangerous asteroids from spawning in planetary orbits, keeping Space Platforms safe. Compatible with Any Planet Start, Cupric Asteroids, More Asteroids, and Asteroid Frequency Multiplier.

Tweaks
2 months ago
2.1
85
Factorio: Space Age Icon Space Age Mod
Planets

i [Implemented] No setting to affect only planet orbits

2 months ago

It is not possible with the mod to remove asteroids from planet orbits, instead removing medium or large asteroids removes them entirely. I just want to make the planet orbit safe for a shipyard after the 2.1 changes.

2 months ago

That.. is a really good point. I originally made this super early during Space Age's release, where I just wanted the dangerous asteroids gone entirely, and then eventually stopped using it myself. I only cared about making sure that it worked when updating it to 2.1

It makes so much more sense to only affect planet orbits directly, and not the routes in between (though I left it in as a setting, in case anybody preferred it that way, disabled by default). Implemented in v1.3.1

2 months ago

thank you for the quick response and update! I looked at the previous changelogs and saw you made the choice to remove most customizations due to compatibility issues with planet mods, which is entirely reasonable but the mod description still says the options are still there, maybe you would wish to update it to reflect the current state as I was genuinely confused when I installed the mod and looked for the relevant settings.

2 months ago

Yeah, having settings for each planet on an individual level was just too time-consuming, and very quickly bloated the settings menu from my testing. Updated the mod description and info page on the mod portal to reflect the current settings (at least the one in-game had already been updated before)

13 days ago
(updated 13 days ago)

Yeah, having settings for each planet on an individual level was just too time-consuming, and very quickly bloated the settings menu from my testing. Updated the mod description and info page on the mod portal to reflect the current settings (at least the one in-game had already been updated before)

I still didn't understand - INGAME you wrote SAFE ORBITS, here - safe space at all (no orbit word at all) - which I should believe - safe spaceplatform above planet or safe space at all

13 days ago

I'm not sure what you mean.

The mod description in-game says "Limits the size of dangerous asteroids spawning in planetary orbits, keeping Space Platforms safe."

It doesn't technically do that by default, because that would be a terrible decision (removing all harmful asteroids from all planets), but it technically can do that if you change the settings. The only improvement I could make to the wording would be to specify keeping space platforms safer, rather than just safe.

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