Meteor shower settings

[Sketchy]

The Catasclysmic and Armagedden settings are pretty self explanatory as well as the normal. My only question is about the Safe setting. Do the meteor showers occur at all and if so, are the meteors so small that the damage they do is more of an annoyance than anything?

[orb]

The Safe setting doesn't create a "MeteorWave" sector event type in the world save, so my guess is that the showers don't occur at all.

[Marek Rosa]

Perhaps we should d have named it "No" instead of "Safe"

Because in "safe" there are no meteorites

[The_Mell]

Originally posted by Marek Rosa:

Perhaps we should d have named it "No" instead of "Safe"

Because in "safe" there are no meteorites

Or you should add a 'no'-mode and transform 'save'-mode into nice look but no damage upon impact. :)

[Malak]

Just be a man and turn it on. ;-)

[teravisor]

Originally posted by Sakatumoria:

I have a question regarding meterors, is any of the developers able to give insight as to how often meteors appear on these settings? I'm assuming the higher you put the setting the more frequent and large in scale they are. I ask because I think this will help many people, including myself, decide what setting to play on.

I would like to play on the higher settings, but i'm hestient because I don't want meteors coming at me every five minutes.

You are assuming correctly.
It's about never for safe/10-15 mins for normal/5-8 mins for cataclysmic/1-2 mins for apocalypse. Somewhere around that, numbers are not accurate.

But they miss 95% of time anyway.

[Malak]

Ok, been using "Normal" for awhile now and while I love the concept, it is so much damage to the base, I literally cannot keep up with the damage. The ideal would be one stray rock every couple of hours, not every 10-15 minutes. I've lost 6-7 solar panels in half an hour. And many light armor blocks. It does make solar futile. We need to be able to hack the settings at least. I like that it gives you something to do, but you'd literally never be able to have time to mine or capture ships, even on normal.

[terry309]

Originally posted by Malak:

Ok, been using "Normal" for awhile now and while I love the concept, it is so much damage to the base, I literally cannot keep up with the damage. The ideal would be one stray rock every couple of hours, not every 10-15 minutes. I've lost 6-7 solar panels in half an hour. And many light armor blocks. It does make solar futile. We need to be able to hack the settings at least. I like that it gives you something to do, but you'd literally never be able to have time to mine or capture ships, even on normal.

but thats the challenge, rebuilding stuff is a space engineers job, if you don't like dealing with the dangers, turn on safe mode.

[Fenris]

If I'm correct, isn't a meteor an object that enters an atmosphere and begins to burn? I think what you'll want is a comet to pass through the system. It would be feasable and useful in later development as you could extract extra resources and ice from the object. A comet passing through slowely but dangerously colliding into objects would be interesting especially if you could buiild machines to grab it or get on it long enough to grab stuff and get off.

[WabbaCat]

so,.. my server has been up for an hour and I havent seen a single meteor shower. its set on normal atm.... is this to be expected? I thought someone mentioned it should be 10-15 minutes?

[Fenris]

You know what, I just looked at today's update lol. I guess they added meteorite's. I thought I was in the suggestions forum. Anyway chances are if you don't see the updates take effect you may need a new game. I'll have to see for myself.

[Malak]

Originally posted by terry309:

Originally posted by Malak:

Ok, been using "Normal" for awhile now and while I love the concept, it is so much damage to the base, I literally cannot keep up with the damage. The ideal would be one stray rock every couple of hours, not every 10-15 minutes. I've lost 6-7 solar panels in half an hour. And many light armor blocks. It does make solar futile. We need to be able to hack the settings at least. I like that it gives you something to do, but you'd literally never be able to have time to mine or capture ships, even on normal.

but thats the challenge, rebuilding stuff is a space engineers job, if you don't like dealing with the dangers, turn on safe mode.

I have no issue rebuilding, but you missed the part about you literally cannot fix the damage between showers. So you are supposed to never be able to advance or always go backwards? You would eventually run out of materials. I was lucky because I had just spend an hour loading a large cargo container that was right there, but I still could not keep up.

[RitoDurito]

I play on a server with 3-5 friends at a time and even on normal settings the rate at which they spawn is way to often to have fun building anything else, would be great if we could decrease the rate at which they spawn because at this rate we're to busy repairing things that break on normal, so yep, annoying more than anything, though really cool.

[dga8705]

I think the idea is to survive, you have to build on the dark side of the asteroids, as the meteors always come from the direction of the sun. That way they hit the asteroids and not your base. It just means you have to pay attention to where you are building.

[RitoDurito]

Originally posted by dga8705:

I think the idea is to survive, you have to build on the dark side of the asteroids, as the meteors always come from the direction of the sun. That way they hit the asteroids and not your base. It just means you have to pay attention to where you are building.

True but in pre patch worlds it's pretty hard to, most bases are used to take advatange of solar pannels.

[orb]

Originally posted by Fenris:

If I'm correct, isn't a meteor an object that enters an atmosphere and begins to burn?

Yeah. Meteor is a meteoroid burning while entering an atmosphere, meteorite is a (piece of) meteoroid which survived the entry and impact.