Critical, Game-Breaking Issue

I've not had meteors on any of my planets, but the problem with the big ones from what I've heard, is they can have 30 minute intervals between hits, it's a bit much to stay on every planet you go to for a full 30 minutes (when you beam to ship weather timers reset, i believe) to check if all your work is going to be destroyed. and their lack of warning means you can't prevent or lessen their damage. But saying "this is beta, deal with it" isn't a valid argument, the whole point of public beta is that the players provide feedback, if you comment "beta, deal with it" on every feedback thread, what's the point of beta?

 

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I am finding these threads increasingly hilarious, these stories are great.

 

It's not game breaking, it's a mechanic. an environmental trait for a given set of planets.
Do some reconnaissance on a planet before you decide to call it home and you will be fine.

or don't and post your funny meteorite stories here for all to read and laugh about.

 

such sympathy

 

I expected to hear about some horrible, awful, computer-destroying bug that will wipe your entire starbound directory. Nope, just more complaints about meteors.

 

Do some reconnaissance? If only it were that easy.

Sometimes meteors don't show up until after a long time, and by that time, you've already built yourself a home.

 

Perhaps it's because people seem to think Giant Meteor=Meteor shower and are mutually exclusive and that there's some kind of way to tell if it's gonna have THE GIANT MURDERBALL AIMING AT YOUR HEAD FOR NO REASON...
Small meteorshowers I can deal with, and look around on the planet to see what weather it has...but the Giant one comes with no warnings of any kinds.

 

I don't get the complaint about meteors and acid rain and for the following reasons;
* It spurs ppl into building meteor shields (building a roof over your actual roof and repairing it when those things hit) or bunkers deep, deep underground
* Have ever seen the havoc a tidal wave causes in ANNO2070?? Or global warming in the earlier Civ installments ?? Or heck, irl; ever seen what an earthquake does ?? Imo; it's just another game mechanic and this game gives you a perfect option....if you don't like it...leave
* Seeing as planets only have 1 weathertype you mean you never stay on a planet long enough to figure out what that weathertype is? It's my main priority when building a base but normally never a problem seeing as I build the skeleton of my base first anyways and in the time I do so I usually get to know exactly what that weathertype is.
* As for the Big Whopper (as I call it), I've played enough games of extreme difficulty that I can live with it....

As for a funny meteor shower story....

I once decided to build my base on an alpha planet and was a bit disturbed when I discovered it hadn't rained while building the skeleton of my new home....I was just building my meteor shield when my suspicion was confirmed and a Big Whopper came falling down....exactly through the ONLY opening I still had in said shield and landed dead center in my area I wanted to use as my farming area....I don't think I have to say that the resulting destruction annihilated my base. I shrugged and started rebuilding....30 minutes later I was nearly done with repairing my base when #2 came falling down and that's when I discovered I should've completed my meteor shield first. it landed on another area of my base....I shrugged again and started rebuilding, my shield first this time. Due to my cats distracting me for just a second I never saw #3 coming......

I decided to head for greener pastures after that

 

If I come across as terse it is only because I am kind of sick of modern games receiving the kid gloves treatment. Acid rain, meteor showers, giant meteors, they all add to the variety and difficulty of the game. Calling such a mechanic game breaking is extreme and unwarranted. Guess I just grew up on NES and SNES games that were at lot less forgiving.

Music instruments that crash your game with potential data loss is game breaking.

A giant meteorite from the heavens that just wrecked 45 minutes of work is not.

This entire game is focused on exploration and building. If anything, the giant meteorites are a doubled edged blade...er rock... that causes the player to do both. They either adjust their building plans to accommodate for the inclement "weather" or explore other planets to find one more hospitable.

All games come with an element of random chance, that is what makes it a game.

That being said, perhaps a thread should be started with examples of how players have attempted to thwart being crushed from above. Maybe different block types are more impervious to meteorite damage than others. Perhaps meteor shower planets are only meant to be colonized in late game, or by people who enjoy living underground.

 

I'd partially agree if there was some easy way to prevent meteors from destroying your stuff (and even then, they should be slightly nerfed, even a dev has said that things are unbalanced), but as of right now, there's no way besides building a huge-ass meteor shield.

 

Dear god there isn't enough of these threads that someone had to go and bump one that's a month old?

 

for the next time... if a planet has a background that has craters in it, you can expect meteor strikes.

This might help you when choosing planets to build on.

 

I don't know if you're like this too, but everything in my storage have no use whatsoever. I put stuff like old armor and weapons and blocks in there, but I never EVER use them. I really wouldn't be all that mad if I lost all the stuff in my storage.

 

Playing a permadeath character, and was scouting out an absolutely massive planet. This means extremely long nights, and bedding down in any shelter I can get. I stumble upon a house, and AFK for a bit while night runs its course.

Come back to this.



Really dodged a bullet there.

 

GIANT METEOR is NOT THE SAME AS METEOR SHOWERS. GIANT METEOR CAN easily crush you even on planets with NO craters or different kind of weather.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
THERE IS NO WARNING.

 

No warning for either, they both one-shot you, they are both barely dodge-able, is there really that much difference, other than the fact that the giant meteor, after hitting you, goes through the ground?

Heh, I tried installing this meteor protection mod, but I accidentally installed a mod that calls meteors or meteor showers. I clicked meteors, and a quite large meteor fell right next to me. I didn't see the crater at first, so I pressed it about 20 more times. Now there is a 20 block wide hole into an abyss.

 

Except planets with meteor showers may show craters in background, or have some on the ground and scattered all over. Also they won't show if there's a different kind of weather already.

 

Wasn't that theory proven false?

 

For the Giant meteors or meteor showers?