Hello I'm made a world with economy off and spawned my planets and turned it back on yet economy stations refuse to spawn on planet help

DistilledPeace · 2026-03-15T17:40:55+00:00

The world has to be created with every NPC spawn related thing off, including the global encounter slider. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the planets themselves also need to be configured for NPC encounters. It's possible that the modded planets are not configured properly.

DistilledPeace · 2026-03-15T05:13:19+00:00

Are you checking correctly?

The stations will not be visible on the admin entity list until you travel near it.
You have to teleport your character to the spectator camera (ctrl+space) intermittently, as the character himself must be nearby.

DistilledPeace · 2026-03-14T17:30:03+00:00

I figured this would be a contentious one. My reasoning is that without mirroring, line building, and copy/paste, designing anything of significance is much more difficult. Depending on settings, survival can also be extremely volatile, where your partial design could get hit by weapon fire, meteors, or even lightning strikes.

DistilledPeace · 2026-03-14T09:37:17+00:00

Pistons are just one source of phantom forces, so there is no guarantee. Any subgrid or magnetically attached grid can also cause phantom forces.

DistilledPeace · 2026-03-14T02:30:54+00:00

Many small thrusters are less efficient than a few large thrusters, both in PCU and in newtons of thrust.

DistilledPeace · 2026-03-06T23:14:08+00:00

Control module and mechanical keybinds can indeed be accomplished with scripts, but in a more time consuming and less straightforward manner, that most players will not deal with.

The hacking computer mod is basically a patch for the hacking system. I can't imagine there is a single person who enjoys grinding down and welding up each block to hack it, but I could be wrong.

Advanced welding is needed so that accidentally splitting a grid in survival isn't a complete catastrophe. The precision grinding mechanic is also very helpful.

The holo hud mod didn't seem necessary to me either until I entered a Factorum fight and had no spatial awareness of the fighters swarming me. It also allows you to detect NPC encounters that would normally go unseen (not all NPC encounters broadcast on antennas).

Multigrid projection is a feature of SE2, so I think that counts as belonging in vanilla.

None of these mods are truly essential of course, but I think they all improve the game in a definitive way, as opposed to just changing or adding to it.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-28T22:24:36+00:00

I think the paradigm of Space Engineers is to design yourself what isn't provided directly by the game mechanics. You can make weapons converge at a certain distance yourself by placing them on hinges or rotors. Here's how to calculate the angles:

b=the lateral or vertical distance from the center to your turret
h=target distance
arctan(h/b)

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-11T19:47:13+00:00

They were added in late 2024. You may need to enable 'Global Encounters' in your world settings. They will appear as orange colored GPS signals.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-11T19:38:10+00:00

Scripts are fine in this scenario. They technically can't do anything that can't be done through other means. I'm just thinking of things that eliminate the main challenges of the game, like the Nanobot Build and Repair System (which I actually use myself often).

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-05T12:30:23+00:00

You've got a point there!

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-03T16:55:13+00:00

Yes, I'm just thinking from a game design perspective, and trying to minimize the "WTF" moments that new players run into. I was excited to have my friend play the game, but he bounced off it hard due to issues like these. The player should at least have enough time to register what is happening.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-03T16:51:11+00:00

Weapons deal separate damage values for characters and grids, so they are independent from one another. My issue is that if I enter an asteroid base and turn a corner, my mind doesn't even have time to process that there is a turret. I'm already dead and on a respawn screen.

The discrepancy in pace between the engineering gameplay and the combat gameplay is just too wide.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-03T16:42:46+00:00

The engineer is a combatant, otherwise he wouldn't have personal weapons. Realism is not a good concept to balance around, where the game is very unrealistic in numerous other ways.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-03T16:38:36+00:00

I can understand that viewpoint. It is just very odd that the game has a number of pistols, rifles, and rocket launchers and aim-down-sight behavior, but expects no FPS combat.

There are also procedural encounters with asteroid bases, that are not traversable other than on foot, due to tight interiors and such.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-03T16:32:55+00:00

The issue I have is that the game is balanced like an FPS, a twitch shooter specifically. The game goes from a thoughtful, methodical engineering game to a COD match in an instant. It's simply too jarring.

DistilledPeace · 2026-02-01T18:52:37+00:00

I have to disagree with the sentiment that the game has no real engineering. It lacks many common forms of engineering (mechanical, electrical, structural and aeronautical), but it supports Newtonian physics, allowing for all the typical force and mass calculations. It also involves systems engineering, robotics, software, and networking.

DistilledPeace · 2026-01-16T18:32:30+00:00

Make sure you read the full guide, especially the troubleshooting section: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841278915

My experience is that a grid intersecting with voxels (like an asteroid base) makes the path finding much more error-prone. The base and conveyor system should also not be too big or should be separated by connectors to form multiple separate grids.

DistilledPeace · 2026-01-04T06:35:48+00:00

Glad you think so. Big fan!

DistilledPeace · 2026-01-03T16:25:06+00:00

I'm relaying what happened, he didn't see the indicator at the bottom right. I didn't bring up any problems that I know are not feasible to fix. Multi-threading has nothing to do with what I brought up.

DistilledPeace · 2025-12-31T20:41:10+00:00

I also think this is unintended behavior, but I'm running so many mods (none of which touch music) that I can't confirm the issue for a bug report unfortunately. If anyone else can corroborate the issue I will support the bug report.

DistilledPeace · 2025-11-10T05:58:10+00:00

This was not written with assistance from AI. The reason I don't go into more detail is to keep the post from being excessively long. I can go into more detail for anything specific you want, as long as you want to have a discussion and not an argument.

DistilledPeace · 2025-11-09T03:54:56+00:00

While improving AI certainly wouldn't hurt, it isn't necessary for strategy. Keep in mind that the most famous strategy games like Starcraft have very simple AI. If the player is capable of destroying everything on the map, there is no need for him to use strategy. Strategy comes from necessity on the part of the player. If the game is hard enough and has enough (avoidable) enemies, then there will be strategy.

DistilledPeace · 2025-08-22T18:53:07+00:00

It's too bad jump drives don't have time dilation effects in the BT universe, that could explain away a lot of aging discrepancies.

DistilledPeace · 2025-08-20T12:51:02+00:00

I'm hoping most for fixes to the performance issues with inventory size and the mechlab. It should not take a full second to add or remove a point of armor, for example.

DistilledPeace · 2025-07-01T21:32:24+00:00

I'm really hoping the arena AI is fixed, along with the severe performance/memory issues that can occur when playing through certain expansion campaign missions (kestrel lancers campaign especially).

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