Is this actually new, though?

I thought Nauvis was the only planet where you were guaranteed not to get pummeled by damage-causing asteroids while assembling a platform.


As I said, the damage was much less (for medium asteroids, while stopped at 0 km/s) in the 2.0 version. Something like 50 ...

The way asteroids deal damage got a rework in the experimental branch, and now each medium asteroid destroys 2-4 entities on impact even at 0 km/s. This change doesn't generally offend me (you should always plan for some attrition and you shouldn't send an unprepared platform on a journey imo) but I ...