meteors.txt
SimoydLast Thursday at 11:03 PM
hey James, I have a question for you about meteor spawning mechanics. on todays (Jan 10) hunt we went through the "center" of 8+ regions on Norkyna between 9:00pm and 9:30pm EST and didn't spawn a single meteor (not even a distant small one). I feel like I'm letting a bunch of people down :(. I was wondering if there might be some way for you to review what occurred during that time? What mechanism or system is preventing us from getting those meteors? Is there a cap on how many meteors can be active on a planet? Maybe it was already capped before we started? Is there any additional information that you might be able to share regarding the meteor spawning mechanics?
January 13, 2019
Oort "the James" ArchToday at 2:54 AM
Roughly speaking there are a few systems running.
The old 300m x 300m world grid. Walking into a cell schedules an event in that cell in the next 0mins to 120mins. Unless the grid is on a cool down. Then it’s skipped.
The new named region based system. Which will instantly spawn an event unless the region is on a cool down.
I think both cools downs are roughly 120mins.
There is a maximum number of events in the world but I doubt it’s hitting that.
I’m assuming that someone else explored the regions before you so all the regions were on cool downs.
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