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When a large platform is parked at the solar system edge, you get huge asteroids spawning from the front (obviously normal), and you get some from the sides, but only up to a certain height.

I would have expected either spawns from the entire sides, or no spawns from the sides at all.

Thanks for the report,

Would you be able to attach a save game?

Here you go

seems to be the top ~25% of the height. You can verify with a taller ship.

ok apparently this is a thing on aquilo (so I assume all planets) too. I guess I never realized cause I never parked a ship before anywhere except for nauvis. So maybe this was the intended way?

i have a save file showing similar behavior. a platform that has never moved, with turrets surrounding it, has hundreds of kills on the front and side turrets, zero on the back. the platform is called "quantum statite." (and yes, while the turrets were not all constructed at the same time, they were constructed within an hour of each other a few hours ago, and a visual inspection shows no asteroids at the back, but some at the front and sides)

this isnt the latest game version, so im unsure if this is helpful. i can run it a while on the latest version to see if anything changes, if someone wants that.

According to 123899, in particular this post, this seems to be intentional.