Will stations built inside asteroids pose problems?
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Will stations built inside asteroids pose problems?
I used the Hephaistos Corp. Station Building Service with the bonus pack in AP and it build all my stations inside a rather large asteroid that is a silicon mine. They seems to be find in there atm, but I was wondering if they might just like randomly blow up or something... don't know if anyone has seen any problems with that happening before.
Aye, stations in a complex will not take collision damage from other stations in the complex. That lead to some people plopping entire megaplexes in one spot, and just racing to get them all complexed together before they rubbed each other to pieces.kurush wrote:Fly close to this structure and listen for that scratching sound stations make when they connect. If you don't hear it, you should be fine. I think they fixed it so that connected complexes don't blow up even if some of their stations overlap. In reunion it used to be an issue.
Since asteroids are 'hollow', stations entirely inside the asteroid would be fine, so long as the asteroid never moved (ie tractoring it would be a bad idea
). The points of concern would be those in contact with the surface, since they should 'rub' and slowly take damage. You can either just accept it and complex them together (and hope the complex hub never gets destroyed), or reload an earlier save / accept the overlapping stations as lost. In TC at least, the actual rate of station-on-station damage was usually either catastrophically fast (dead in a second or two), or very minor (maybe downed to 99% shields after a couple minutes). The minor damage only really mattered when you had many stations overlapping at once - 50 stations simultaneously damaging each other is a bit more of an issue, even if it's small 1-on-1.If you were intending to complex them anyway, I'd suggest simply doing that and then largely ignoring the issue. It'd only matter if that complex hub was ever destroyed, and even then, the stations would only take damage as fast as they are now, and only when you're in-system, so you'd likely have ample time to fix the issue.
