Giant Meteors that destroy bases are NOT ok!

My experience with these giant everrageful gobbstoppers has been less pleasant. My first planet had these giant meteors. Imagine my surprise when I had been working on my base for two hours when BAM

suddenly no more base. And this happened 4 more times. I'm not even joking. 5 planets. All of them plagued with giant meteors. I thought at first maybe it had to do with an asteroid field in the system. 3 of the 5 had no asteroid fields. The fifth one I started to think it was a one-off thing, so I waited until the first one langed, and thought "sure, ok, I'll build now". Got farther long with my base, BAM. Meteor takes out my crafting shack. Rebuild. instead of hours later, the next one landed a half hour later and obliterated my crops. It was at the point that I threw both of my hands up because, come on, 5 planets with giant meteors? in a row? I was starting to run out of coal at this point because I had to keep FTLing to find a better planet to set down on. And they were varying biomes, so it wasn't that. One of the meteors even happened during an acid storm.

I think these giant meteors need to be balanced, restricted away from the Alpha sector, or removed until there is a way to detect/prevent them. It's just too much frustration and makes one not inclined to build anything.

 

As stated before with a few issues last patch: You're probably seeing a lot of these because they added the feature and want to make sure it doesn't crash the game for different people. Balance will come soon, patience.

I've yet to see them, and I cannot wait to. However, as a note, I build a mini-base on my ship because I got tired of having to move an entire base every time I jumped planets so that I could function on that planet without bouncing between the planet and my home planet. Perhaps for those who are meteor-cursed, this could be a solution? Just perhaps a mini little area in your ship with crafting stuff and storage so you don't lose things.

After that I personally build a little home and farm and have a happy little life until the mini-meteors come. Can't wait to see a big one, even if it smushes me like the tiny bird I am.

TL;DR: Yeah I think it should be balanced, however I'm sure that's coming. I think a lot of people are SEEING them because they're new which means people are noticing them and that they're currently being tested for how they work.

 

You make a good point but JIMINY CHRISTMAS 5 PLANETS IN A ROW!? That number is a little high to just be coincidence. I just wish the first one hadn't been on my starter planet... augh.

 

5 is really high but it's just gotta be shit luck. I have yet to see one. In fact, my starting planet seems to be completely devoid of any sort of weather or meteors. Spent most of my time on it (at least five hours) and I haven't seen a thing.

 

*rubs forehead* If I try a sixth time and that planet has huge rocks dropping on me too I'm going to come back louder and whinier than before lol

 

*sneaks over to manlyyams's planet to install 6th meteor attraction device*
:whistle:

 

OK. But what flashes across the screen when you teleport down? Is it "II c" or anything like that? lol

 

Only moons, tiny and small planets should have them, since larger planets have thicker atmospheres here the meteorites would just burn up in.

 

I would think big planets would have MORE meteorites, but that planets and moon orbiting larger planets shouldn't have any/less. Kind of like how Jupiter is so huge it sucks up alot of space debris that would cause us problems.

quick google:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html?_r=0

 

Although larger planets like Jupiter do attract more, if Jupiter had a surface, pretty much none would actually hit them.

 

Any random feature is welcome, even if it's as unfortunate as a giant meteor.

At least it's better than someone going nuts and blowing the base up (no comments)

 

Well, then planets orbits gas giants, there's plenty of those in SB.

Speaking on which, is it still technically a planet if it's orbiting a larger planet or is it a moon? Is it dependent on its orbit in the solar system or its physical properties?

 

I'll check it out when I get home from work later tonight. Give you the exact name of the planet. I didn't realize those coordinates were for the entire system and not just one particular planet.

 

The trade-off for all that gravity being that you wouldn't be able to play the game on such a planet. Oh the realismz!

 

In Terraria I would always build a dome or box around my base on the surface just high enough to be out of view if I was standing in my base. I read the thread on reddit there, and it sounds like wood seems to take the impact for some odd reason, so I'd build a wood wall or something floating above your base. Put something between the sky and your base, even if it is off screen so it doesn't interfere with your architecture. Give it a shot and let us know what happens.

Myself, I'm not building anything big and permanent on a planet until we know there won't be any planet wipes. For now I'll be cramming stuff onto my super small ship or in my inventory and just stockpile the building materials I'll want to use when I can build without fear of loosing it. I've built 5 or 6 really awesome bases up to this point already. I might just be burnt out on building mega structures for now though knowing my ship and inventory are safe.

 

It was kind of funny. I went to that system and said "okay, now where?" Haha

This would make a great demonstration system as it looks like every biome is represented!

 

Even though Jupiter is what we call a "Gas Giant" there is something solid at the core and before that there would be something we would call a "surface". Most likely Jupiter's core is a giant ball of rocky iron or some other metal that helps it generate such a strong magnetic field to hold all that gas around it. It's "surface" is most likely a heavy ferrous liquid gas composite. Definitely not something we could walk on like the core (of course there's no way to survive at the core anyway), but Jupiter does have a "surface" layer of some kind and definitely a core that generates Jupiter's massive gravitational pull. Jupiter is literally Earth's solar system "body guard" as it's gravity pulls in a lot of meteors and asteroids that would otherwise make their way to slamming into us if Jupiter wasn't there.

 

1 is true, but we can't really do 3 until we have 2. I've said it before- until it starts raining moons on your house, you can't really know if it will.

Sorry pal... someone's got to fill the unlucky end of the Gauss curve, this time it was you. Some recommendations:

• If the planet's background has impact craters, it will rain doom.
• If the solar system has asteroid fields somewhere, it will rain doom.

So look for a planet on a small system that has no background holes, and check the neighborhood thoroughly. And still, it may rain doom.

IRL, the simplified definition is: if a spherical stone orbits a star, it is a planet; if it orbits a planet, it is a moon; but if the center of gravity between two non-star objects lies above the surface of both objects, it is a twin planet system.
In Starbound, the planet has a name with a Roman numeral at the end, like VII or IX. Moons have an additional lowercase letter, like a or b.

There is always a size threshold. If the space boulder is big enough, the atmosphere won't burn it completely.