So this is very cool idea, but I do have to say I find it poorly balanced. Way to much loot, I found around 25-30k in implants alone not to mention all the cores. I realize this may just be a "me" thing but Id grealy appreciate it if you could maybe add a slider to turn down the overall amount of loot on each platform.

Thanks for the mods!

a cultist or Sanguophage orbital platform would be cool!

Yea i was looking for that too, a space only run, but im guessing that it will come over time in a few weeks / months.

i have to ask would it be possible to get a mod that just adds more platforms and asteroids in general i really want to use these mods and do a space only run but the gap between orbital objects is that big u cant really do it

I second the Alien station, and ill add maybe a infested asteroid.

Another good idea is an overgrown habitat, full of plants and animals, or a hollowed asteroid, which is an asteroid with plants and animals from a random biome.

Maybe even a mausoleum habitat, with a few loots from the sarcophagus's.

This would be more complicated I imagine, but could you do a "section of orbital platform falls from space" Raid event? Like, use the code for mech clusters or asteroids and have a few rooms of a station fall from space with an explosion. It would be a mech raid, but would also have some complex loot after you win the fight. Just an idea for a new raid type involving these structures you are making

Maybe just like a straight fortress? I really want stuff to raid in my space pirate ship yknow?

for one, great mod, just got through it. absolutely swimming in implants that have a 3 or 6x limit -w-, maybe turn the rate down a little and give a few more basic rewards? plasteel, (advanced) components, bionics etc, but amazing time, great resources and fun combat

the doors seem set up wrong, in that the player can claim them anytime, not just when there's no hostiles left, and they need to to move through them ..which makes mechs unable to move through them because the player claimed the doors; minor oversight, not too bad of an impact

I did (mistakingly) think this was a mechanitor crypt and not ''just'' a mechanitor resource dungeon, I'd suggest adding an orbital mechanitor crypt as well, either as a seperate orbital platform or add a chance for this one to contain it, as getting a mechlink in a space only run would be great

Could be a mod conflict, but I removed the floors from the buildings and there was soil underneath. Hilarious but not an issue or anything.

Great mod, I'd love to see more platforms of any kind to spice up an orbit-only playthrough. Some way of getting chemfuel would be handy, maybe an orbital refueling station or a hydroponics bay. A fuel station full of hunter mines and explosives would have a very funny risk-reward balance...

I will say the mechanitor stations feel way too powerful with how many implants and subcores are present. I think it would be better if the loot was closer to something like an orbital stash where you have one storeroom with 1-3 mechanitor items and the rest is normal crates and components and stuff.

Btw do mechanitor platforms ever spawn with the other two mechanoid bosses? I've only seen the diabolus so far. That would be a good alternative route for progressing through Biotech since you can't summon mech raids while in orbit, and it would add a bit more of a threat to balance out the loot if you visit one too early.

a xenomorph style Anomaly space station would be cool.
A team of scientists identified and restrained an anomalous entity but it seems something has gone wrong, you have received a distress signal, when you arrive, there is blood and corpses everywhere (like the intro to deadspace) and you find what killed the scientists, their experiment after escaping from its restraints.
the entity you discover could be one of several, Revenant, shamblers, clone obelisk, etc.

@zoarak963 Unfortunately since its a dll I cant view the source :( but good to note I will defo study the xml

I know cheeky to ask but is it possibly for you too do a sort of asteroid pack mod which just checks which DLC you have installed combining this mod and your anomaly one. That way you have less mods to work on maintaining and then you could build numerous in one mod. Even have an on/off in mod options.

To everyone who asked for an Anomaly Research Asteroid just posted the mod!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3527726648

just got like 20 high subcores from one orbital platform,,,, it might be a bit too powerful rn

@Bean I am too noob for github tbh but ya should just be able to see everything after ya download it. Most of the stuff is doable in xml just needed C# for finer tuning and spawning in enemies.

seeing space temples, inhabited or abandoned for ideology would be a fun way to grab special materials via breaking down decorations

is this mod on github? I'd love to look at the source code to see about creaitng my own orbital platform quests if thats alright with you?

@Zane Using Randy Random, and neither my colony at 15+ years nor another colony at 5+ years have a mechanitor complex available. Beside, the wiki don't mention that these quest are guaranteed anywhere.

@Kimo something is not wrong on your end, mechanitor complexes are not that rare. They are actually guaranteed to happen at most twice a year unless you already have one of those complex quests or the mechanitor ship quest (the initial one from exostrider remains).

This is easily verifyable in: Core\Defs\Storyteller\Storytellers.xml

So there is actually only two explanations possible now for your claim of non in 30 years:
A) you already have either the mechanitor ship or the mechanitor complex and have missed it
B) you are using a modded, and very likely very outdated, custom storyteller.

@The devout Obviously everyone get that one. The entire purpose of the mechanitor complex is to get a chance to get a decond one, if you want more mechanitor or if you somehow lose your first one.

Really Kimo'? i get them every game i dont have an exostrider remains??

So, if you don't want to add mechlink due to balance reasons, since there's lots of other loot. How about a middle ground? Like, set the mechlink chance to spawn to 50%, and whenever it does, the other loot gets nerfed.

It's really unfortunate that you can't find any mechlink there. Vanilla Mechanitor complex are already incredibly rare (never had one is 30 in game years.) and the mechlink is the sole reason to explore a mechanitor complex in the first place. Really hope this will change.

You could add quests (giving by empire) to clean a capture Imperial Station out of rebels (reward is the station loot and reputation).

+1 for anomaly platforms. Anomaly is sadly very lacking in space. I'd love cross-DLC integration (assuming most people own all DLC), i.e. an Abandoned Imperial Anomaly Research Station, with anomaly entities let loose on it. Or an Imperial Gene Clinic that can contain full genepacks for existing xenotypes (i.e. Hussar Genepack, Genie Genepack) as well as loose random genes as well.

Hello, this is great addition, thank you.
Another ideas for DLC integrations could be (like others said)
Anomaly:
- containment breached labs or study labs
-- with flesh infested labs
-- deadlife outbreak in a prison like testing lab
-- devourers in large enclosed observation pen

But I also think that Royalty deserves some attention.
Maybe a destroyed royal space station? With throne, gold and some riches primarily in buildings rather than loose loot.
With small chance of techprints to be found?

Zoarak I know it would be a really niche playerbase but like Smiley Face Killer said an Anomaly Platform would be amazing, and if you added a patch with RustSpark so all the stations turrets and electronics are infected then my life would be yours.

Anomaly in space would be pretty sick for real
Infested gravship wrecks would go so hard
Abandoned Colonies, General gravship wrecks you can salvage out, Warzones, Ruined Munitions factories (to avoid certain legalities on the world), Ruined Factories in general
All of those would be pretty neat to stumble upon on asteroids/platforms in space imo

Would love to see some anomaly integration, finding abandoned platforms where revenants have killed most of the people on board or a fleshmass asteroid base.

At the moment I decided against mechlinks being found there because there is so much other loot and the vanilla complex already provides that.

Can you get a mechlink from this?

Also thank you to everyone posting ideas about other platforms I won't spoil what I am working on but I will definitely be pulling ideas from here too!

@mkultra victim - It does work with existing saves I added that to the description

@Salty Slothy - I have tested with both ancient uplink and orbital scanner can you give me the log or error I haven't gotten any failed generations yet on my end.

If there's more stuff like this to be made, would be a good idea to make it into an AIO mod.

Getting an issue where every one of these platforms has an error generating and is completely empty.

Does it work on existing saves?

A biotech clone vat station, now dormant, chance to find vat grown ancients and genes, chance to find feral cannibals

Had another idea: a variation of the "person wants to join, pursued by a threat" quest where it's someone trapped aboard a ship or station calling you for rescue. Not particularly related to DLC of course, but nonetheless.

Seconding all the suggestions so far, especially the space daycare suggestion. Royalty-related sites could potentially have psylink neuroformers and sculptures as loot, though I think for balance reasons neuroformers would have to be rare.

I'd also like to suggest an orbital gene lab, perhaps similar to the abandoned gene labs added by Alpha Genes. As a separate consideration from this, Odyssey adds a new xenotype specifically designed for working on space stations, so for space sites that aren't guarded by mechs you could give the defenders a higher chance to spawn as that xenotype. They're not very good at fighting unfortunately, but it'd be cool.

For that matter, you could get a lot of mileage out of space sites being themed around individual xenotypes. Hussars and genies being the other ones that come to mind as suitable for this; one for armories/military installations, the other for laboratories.

a platform with a hostile sanguophage could be really cool, and maybe a platform with the ideology relics?

I agree that an Anomaly lab would be great, as mentioned 3 posts ago. This kind of Integration would go very well for royalty content too! Something like a shattered empire post on the stars, and a deserter post too!

great mod! should have been vanilla in the DLC TBH!

a space daycare thats been overrun by now feral children as another biotech option

YES, Anomaly lab please!

God bless you, I was missing this so much

I SECOND AN ANOMALY RESEARCH FACILITY IN SPACE

Anomaly in space plz!

awesome mod

Maybe an abandon ancient military platform?