Tried that. Actually cheated it and went into creative to spawn an ore detector on my respawn ship (an antenna too as I thought the recent changes to stock may have allowed me to sense my starter ship with it), and no dice. Found two asteroids, neither of which were the ones that had my original ship near it, killed myself, tried again, and found two more that were again not where my original spawn was. No other asteroids were within range either time, and I finally gave up due to the realization it would take me an average of 8 tries (I had it set to 16 asteroids with sparse generation) like that to find my original base (with lengthy flight times after each to get to the closest asteroid), that I was making my world feel very "cheaty", and that even if I rebuilt from scratch due to the distances involved and given that if I tried searching I'd have no way to tell if I was flying off into infinite empty space, that I would likely never find my stuff again.Gilberreke wrote:Oh BTW, FlowerChild, I just realized that if you make an ore detector, you can easily find your base again. Ore detectors have an expanded range in this mod.
So yeah, at present unless you're extremely lucky, it pretty much amounts to permadeath, which may indeed be a little too punishing for this :)
And BTW: it wasn't my ship that I crashed into the asteroid...it was my dude. My original spawn was near an asteroid, and I was flying back and forth with my jetpack mining iron. On one trip I think I accidentally hit the key that turned off my dampeners and only realized too late I had been accelerating full blast the entire time towards the asteroid. Was just a stupid mistake on my part, but the kind of mistake where you don't really feel it was worth a restart :)
Not sure about the changes you are proposing, but will ponder some more. On first glance though, I'm a little worried what you're talking about would decrease the value of mining to the point where it might no longer really be part of the progression.
Despite my unfortunate demise, I think it's also worth mentioning that I was having quite a good time before that happened. Definitely the most fun I've had with SE since they added the small ship grinder :)