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Alien Oct 22, 2024 @ 12:15pm
Asteroid Spawn Rate/Health going toward the Shattered Planet
I'm all for design challenge, and I'm not complaining here, but I just want to make sure everyone is aware:

I tested a giant platform with lots of redundancy, and legendary everything. We are talking
~100 railguns
~200-300 turrets shooting uranium ammo
~200-300 laser turrets
~75ish rocket turrets
~50ish tesla towers to help with asteroid chunks
A wall layer surrounding the gaps between the railguns about 10 tiles thick
High infinite research for all damage types/shooting speed
A large amount of supplies (50ish cargo bays stocked with all of the items used to construct the platform)

And by 15% of the way to the shattered planet I was out of supplies and dead.

I'm not sure if the design idea is just to make it a way for people to get promethium, but if the design idea is a "secret" ending or something (please don't spoil) I just wanted to make sure you are aware that I'm not even sure this is possible

Perhaps I am designing my platforms "wrong" but I just wanted to point out that for about 99% of the player base this is not a realistic goal. It's totally fine if there is a secret ending and it's for the 1% of players who can do it, but if the intention is that a majority or a small fraction of the players are able to reach the shattered planet, you may want to adjust the asteroid spawn rate and health accordingly.

Of course, thank you again for all the hard work and the great DLC.
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Lordly Cinder Oct 23, 2024 @ 7:04pm 
So you can stop and go. I stop the engines over a dozen times just on my way to fulgora. So try stoping and going slowly. You can turn off auto thrust and just turn it back on when reasy. Also im pretty sure that you keep traveling very slowly regardless once you pick a destination,
Alessio Scarlet Nov 3, 2024 @ 8:32pm 
Originally posted by Lordly Cinder:
So you can stop and go. I stop the engines over a dozen times just on my way to fulgora. So try stoping and going slowly. You can turn off auto thrust and just turn it back on when reasy. Also im pretty sure that you keep traveling very slowly regardless once you pick a destination,
Nauvis to Fulgora is 15.000 km.
Nauvis to Shattered planet is 4.145.000 km.
You stop 12 times (no idea why) in 15.000 km, do you realize how many times you'd have to stop while going to the shattered planet? Also if you stop at all for such a short distance it means that your design is bad.
There must be some kind of very long lasting design fixing the shattered planet issue
Conga Lyne Nov 4, 2024 @ 1:08am 
I don't think it's possible to even reach the shattered planet, I saw someone testing it with cheats and even with railcannon spam & atomic bombs being set off every second there was still asteroids leaking through.

Ontop of that if you look at the in-game asteroid map for the route, all asteroids which give usable resources die out almost entirely half way through the expedition and are replaced entirely with promethium asteroids; which don't give any usable resources.

So you're bombarded with 700+ huge prometheum asteroids every minute, are given no usable resources, need to spam atomic bombs, rail cannons, missiles and gun turrets; and you need to sustain that for over 2 million kilometers.

It's disappointing but it looks like you aren't meant to actually reach it, would've rathered they call it something like "Shattered asteroid field" rather than planet, since the name planet implies you can visit it given that you can visit every other planet in the DLC
Last edited by Conga Lyne; Nov 4, 2024 @ 1:11am
cryodragoon Nov 14, 2024 @ 8:16pm 
Originally posted by Conga Lyne:
I don't think it's possible to even reach the shattered planet, I saw someone testing it with cheats and even with railcannon spam & atomic bombs being set off every second there was still asteroids leaking through.

Ontop of that if you look at the in-game asteroid map for the route, all asteroids which give usable resources die out almost entirely half way through the expedition and are replaced entirely with promethium asteroids; which don't give any usable resources.

So you're bombarded with 700+ huge prometheum asteroids every minute, are given no usable resources, need to spam atomic bombs, rail cannons, missiles and gun turrets; and you need to sustain that for over 2 million kilometers.

It's disappointing but it looks like you aren't meant to actually reach it, would've rathered they call it something like "Shattered asteroid field" rather than planet, since the name planet implies you can visit it given that you can visit every other planet in the DLC



except its shattered, the planet has exploded. thus why debri gets thicker and thicker as you go, seen people do it. just takes massive ships with way too many rockets and railguns, something u need to take awhile to achieve, talking 800 legendary cargo bays
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