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Mineable Gigaroids - Lite Edition - LEGACY

Legacy version for Cosmoteer 0.30.0 and earlier. This mod is provided as is and won't work with the current version of Cosmoteer. If you're looking for the live version of this mod, you can find it here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2907238729

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Adds a low amount of mineable gigaroids to each star system.

Mineable Gigaroids are very large asteroids containing mostly iron AND copper, but also some carbon, tritanium, uranium and gold.

As a new feature, barren rocks may also drop resources, though only in small quantities. These rocks can be mined just like resource deposits.

Roughly 5 Mineable Gigaroids are to be found in each star system, usually within an asteroid field. Because the game spawner seems to sometimes be a bit funky, I added a new type of asteroid field to the game which is guaranteed to contain at least a couple of the new Mineable Gigaroids. These new asteroid fields also contain a low amount of Mineable Megaroids instead of only a lot of usually tiny default asteroids and will make these asteroid fields easier to navigate and mine. These mineable megaroids are very similar to the ones in my Mineable Megaroids mod. These new asteroid fields will only spawn 1 (or sometimes 2) in each star system.

Even though mineable gigaroids are not as large as my Mineable Dwarf Planets, these are still massive asteroids and it will take some time and effort to mine them down.

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Why Lite Edition? Because I made a previous version of this mod featuring more variety in both colors and sizes. However, due to game engine limitations that are beyond my power to change, the performancehit turned out to be more than I anticipated, so I had to regretfully unlist the old version of this mod because I could not with a clean conscience keep it up with the issues it could cause.

Fortunately I was able to make some changes and while it will not look as nice as the old version of this mod, balance wise it's nearly identical. Still very unfortunate that there is no way to simply change the color of an asteroid without the game making a full copy of the existing texture atlas, which turned out to be the main cause of the performance issues.

I've decided to upload this mod as a separate download, because trying to fix the old version would probably break people's playthroughs.

Mineable Gigaroids is compatible and can be combined with my other mods (unless stated otherwise), particularly with Mineable Megaroids, Mineable Dwarf Planets, Less Dense Asteroids, just to name a few.

Mineable Megaroids can be found here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888986724

Mineable Dwarf Planets can be gotten from here https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893554386

and Less Dense Asteroids can be found here https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888975911