MES not working?

[HeTiCu7]

This is about the Modular Encounters Spawner mod and associated Surface Occupation mod.

A few days ago I decided to rebuild my mining ship in space and go do some mining. I had been taking out SPRT outposts scattered around my planet. Last time I did this, there were upwards of 20 or so scattered in all directions.

Today, I am back on my planet and went looking for an outpost. There are none. I reloaded the game, checking to see if the mods were still there; they are. Still no SPRT outposts... anywhere. Did Keen break this mod recently, while I was off doing other things, not on the planet? Or, is there a time limit to spawned outposts? Thanks!

[Gorbadon]

Should work, MES was updated just 2 days ago.

Where you exploring long enough for it to spawn something in?
As far as I know MES uses distance traveled and a cooldown timer to determine if it should spawn something or not.

[HeTiCu7]

Originally posted by ;2259061617896727747:

Should work, was updated just 2 days ago.

Where you exploring long enough for it to spawn something in?
As far as I know MES uses distance traveled and a cooldown timer to determine if it should spawn something or not.

So, you mean if there were 20 spawned outposts on my planet 4 days ago, and I left to space and FTL'd 4000km to some asteroids, did some mining, came back and rebuilt mining ship (still in space) and now after that time and distance away returned to planet.... All those that were spawned before 4 days ago vanished by design? The MES mod is designed to remove previously spawned outposts if I go too far away or for too long? Why? What's a cooldown timer?

[Gorbadon]

Hm... that I don't know, I missed that you said that existing bases are gone.

Not shure if MES or thrash cleanup did that.

Edit:
Just looked at the MES description, there are cleanup settings for spawned grids mentioned.
It looks like MES may have deleted those bases based on the settings given by the Surface Occupation mod to save simspeed.

A cooldown timer in this case would start when spawning a base and prevent spawning a new base for the duration the timer is set to.

[HeTiCu7]

Ahh.... thanks! So Surface Occupation has its own trash removal settings? How do I change that? There is no obvious access to a page or tab in the Mods section associated with that mod. Or do I edit some .ini file to change that? What file?

[Gorbadon]

According to the description those settings are part of the mod, in this case Surface Occupation.

I have not seen anything describing how to change them, so I gues you would have to edit the mod to change the cleanup settings. I could have overlooked something though.

Edit:
MES description mentions that there are configuration files, I never tried to edit MES config files so I don't know where they are.

Edit 2:
Correction, I found the config files, they are in the save game folder.

%AppData%\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves\"Your Steam ID"\"Name of Savegame"\Storage\

Press Winkey+R, type in %appdata% and press OK to open the by default hidden appdata folder.

[HeTiCu7]

Thanks Gorbadon. I went back and reread the MES notes, and went looking and found those .xml files you just mentioned. Unfortunately, that means I now need to learn what specific settings do what, and how to change them. <sigh> Oh well, 65 years old and still learning! :)

[HeTiCu7]

For anyone else interested in this, I was also concurrently chatting on the discord about this issue, and someone provided a link to a FAQ that explains how to edit the settings in the .xml file:

https://discordapp.com/channels/398249868805537803/557953304227872768

Exactly what I was looking for!

[Gorbadon]

Thanks for the link, that FAQ will be very usefull if I ever feel the need to edit those configs. :)

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