Sanity Check for Contacts?

[tballgame]

All too often, contacts cannot provide the services they promise, e.g. Salvage Brokers on orbitals without starports, Gestalt Explorers on planets without medical facilities, Fixers on tradeways without refueling capabilities.

This isn't usually a huge deal by midgame, but it can be crippling for an otherwise promising early start. Might you provide a basic sanity check for placement in a future update? If it would slow systemgen, maybe just a sanity check for initial contacts?

Thanks!

[grävling]

Starting salvage brokers have been promised to come with starports.

[fallen]

This is something we will fix only for starting contacts.

[tballgame]

It's not working correctly on the latest Android port.

I just launched a new game and had a starting salvage broker spawn on a planet without a space port...

[pendell]

It's not just contacts. I routinely run across garden or water worlds with vacuum atmo. That's not physically possible.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Cory Trese]

Thanks for the feedback. We will keep working to improve the simulator.

Edge-cases are part of what makes this game interesting for some players.

There will be improvements in future patches. Thanks!

[fallen]

Apr 22, 2019 8:11:13 GMT -5 pendell said:

It's not just contacts. I routinely run across garden or water worlds with vacuum atmo. That's not physically possible.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

It's on the list for Map Seeds V2.

[tballgame]

Apr 20, 2019 23:05:56 GMT -5 fallen said:

This is something we will fix only for starting contacts.

Map Seed: st-v01-28-2-198951386

Steel Song

I've got a fixer on a tradeway sans fuel & a salvage broker on a tradeway sans starport.

I've rerun this particular seed several times, and it is not infrequent that this problem occurs.

Thanks for looking into it!

[fallen]

tballgame - thanks for the specifics.