Current methods to protect your base from meteors.

[Tacticat]

I'm wondering how you guys deal with even the normal setting for meteors. With a single platform i find it far too frequent.

Reading the forums there are a few good threads, one suggesting you build "decoy platforms." meteors seem to target large structures base/ship and alternate between targets...

another idea i used on my last server was to surround my base, at 2-3 km away, with stolen miner/business ships. I got about 6

Does anyone have a better suggestion? It takes forever to build armor blocks in survival mode.

I don't want to turn off meteors, i like them. It adds another element, i just find it a bit crazy it targets you.(patch fixed some of these issues, mostly the velocity factor. This decreases accuracy for meteors.)

[Skipachu]

If it didn't target you at least a little, then it'd almost never hit your stuff. There's a LOT of space out there and a few rocks headed out in a random direction would very rarely come your way.

That said, I've read (I play without them) that the meteors always come from the star in the system. So, the easiest way to avoid the showers would be to build on the dark side of the large asteroids. You'd stay safe forever, but you'd not have the ability to use solar panels.

[Tacticat]

well maybe you could build a few solar pannels by building a connection to the other side and only having a few of them.. lol..

it be a bit hard..

[Prometheus_Unbound]

My base has had a few critical hits from asteroids. It really is a case of placement. But there is a way of doing it without sacrificing your solar energy.
If you build you station behind small asteroids make sure some of the base is exposed. all you need to do is use smaller asteroids (the ones that seem to be in orbit of the larger) as a kind of shield that will take most of the barrage. Those that slip by will either miss or do very little damage. At least nothing that will take too long to fix.
This way you can still use the sun but also have a first line of defense against them.
You will never escape them fully without building behind a large asteroid.
Oh, and this also depends on which setting you have asteroids on. They seem to get larger the higher the difficulty, and therefore do more damage.

[Malak]

walls, rooves composed of corners seem to be the best defense a few have found

[Tacticat]

i built a new base on the dark side of a large astroid. Meteor problem gone..

it took me like 8 hours.. i had to build a mining ship first to get lots of uranium and iron. then i made a becon, stole a business ship, dissembled my main base

but my new base is cool because i got to choose the color scheme as i built it

[Malak]

^except you cannot use solar

oh, and glass blocks solar on the initial release :-(

[Tacticat]

actually,

I just made a long line of light armor blocks around the astroid, took an hour, then put a solar panel facing the sun.. it works. and the meteors have been missing it so far.

it's kinda funny, looks like a tennis racket in space. here is a link to my current build.

http://i.imgur.com/bB8xhuD.jpg

[Malak]

I have bad luck with the meteor strikes. 2nd wave took-out 5 of them at once.

[Tacticat]

hahaha, that is bad luck, i think the trick is to do it in sets of 3 and space them out.

i've even thought about using giant pistons to move a section into the light and back when i see meteor strikes

[Wardiaper]

That's pretty smart. My only problem is it seems solar panels put out only enough power for a toaster compared to a reactor and take 5 years to build in realistic survival.

[Tacticat]

yeah the time i spent building those solar panels i could have harvested enough uranium for a month.

[Malak]

The panels & cargo ships are addressing the fact that the uranium will run out at some point, so they are a long-term survival strategy. we may also have to worry about NPCs stealing it from the reactor at some point.

[Re Grigio]

i drilled inside of an asteroid dig a bigger hole in the center with explosives and built a base inside
is a pain park big ship but is safe

[cannonbo]

i started building a heavy armour roof to protect the base, but it took too long, so i captured a heavily armoured military spaceship and parked it right above my platform home. so far no asteroid has penetrated through. just had to extend the pole with the solar panels to be out of the shadow . the panels still get hit sometimes. if you are starting from scratch you 're better off building on the dark side of the asteroid or inside it.

[Psy0n]

I ran the game for a while on Normal and while mining I found that meteors had taken out both my reactors and blasted the uranium ore into space... Then I suffocated due to no power... When I drifted in on my new Rescue ship, I immediately dismantled the reactor and placed it deep below my base after I had tunnelled into the asteroid. This lasted a while, but the base kept taking hits. So I turned it to Safe mode and recased the whole base in double thick Heavy Armour.. Working better now.