Crystalline Asteroids

[SolKrinfu]

I made a new game to see what the curators say about the Leviathans, on the way there though my science found a solar system that was apparently covered in Crystal asteroids and mining station debris.
it also said "something is not right here" each asteroid has 8 minerals on it.
I have also noticed the only usable asteroids are shaped in a pentagram
I haven't built any thing there yet though

here is a screen-shot:

 

[Foxador]

You get a fun surprise if you make mines on them. Wouldn't advise it unless you have at least a 5k fleet.

 

[Naelar]

you have at least a 5k fleet

And with point defense.

 

[RossMorris]

Let me guess, nesting grounds?

 

[Oscot]

2200 and your capital's a Gaia World?

Something, indeed, is not right here.

 

[Naelar]

2200 and your capital's a Gaia World?

Something, indeed, is not right here.

I dunno. Setting your capital world as gaia has little benefit, in truth. If anything, it makes your capital a bigger target for a war goal.

 

[Oscot]

I dunno. Setting your capital world as gaia has little benefit, in truth. If anything, it makes your capital a bigger target for a war goal.

I mean it's nor right in that it's literally impossible.
Well, unless you're swimming in mods, in which case OP isn't even playing the same game as the rest of the forum so I don't know why he'd think we can help him out.

 

[Naelar]

I mean it's nor right in that it's literally impossible.
Well, unless you're swimming in mods, in which case OP isn't even playing the same game as the rest of the forum so I don't know why he'd think we can help him out.

Not really swimming in mods. It's rather minor to replace starting planets with Gaia worlds. Also, the event the OP came across is in the 1.3 patch. It's part of the game.

 

[airpirate]

I'd imagine making your species start on a Gaia world would involve adding a line or two in a single text file. Hardly swimming in mods.

And yeah, wait on mining those asteroids for a bit. The game is throwing up a bunch of red flags for a reason.

 

[SolKrinfu]

I Made the save to see what the curators said About the different leviathans, and used console commands to get all research so i could get to the enclave faster. I simply stumbled on this system on the way there.
I did build a mining station there and got attacked by things called crystal hivers, the enclaves had some stuff to say about them though.

The gaia world preference was simple though, the gaia world preference already existed in game for when the underground civilization event happens on a gaia world and you gain a pop from it. I simply edited my species in the files to give it that preference, then I edited the preference so it had 30% habitability on all other planets.

 

[Alzara]

Does anybody know how long it takes for the crystalline asteroids to spawn something? I've mined all 5 in my game with no issue...

 

[Alzara]

Nevermind, just got swarmed lol

 

[Emperor Marcus]

i get crash to desktop whenever the crystal raiders swarm me.

 

[Beyond Disbelief]

i get crash to desktop whenever the crystal raiders swarm me.

The truth revealed! The crystal raiders are the harbingers of BSOD, the greatest leviathan of them all!

 

[Ashantai]

Amusingly, you can build a frontier outpost and even when your mining stations are eaten they don't go to the middle of the system and destroy your outpost.

 

[bronze Void poison]

what do crystal hivers and there spawn look like?

 

[HunApo]

what do crystal hivers and there spawn look like?

Tons of swarming little "things", something like amoebas. Otherwise they are quite peacefull.

 

[Xeno_Bob]

Well, How long did it take? After building the mine and before they spawned in?


>Edit: well, I guess it's a random chance of triggering everyday/month since...
been doing some experimenting and that's what I got:

5 asteroid mines (one is actually a research station): spawned within 7 months (on the 17th day)

4 asteroid mines (one is actually a research station): spawned within 5 months (on the 9th day)

1 asteroid mine: 21 YEARS passed and nothing spawned yet. I've since added a research station on one of the Asteroids and mines on 2 Other Celestial Bodies in the system (over 6 years ago).

mining other celestial bodies in the system that aren't one of the five asteroids doesn't seem to have any effect.