Galaxy Forge: How to manage resource asteroids

Need a quick bit of direction in using the new galaxy forge (Selection Toolkit)

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I am very new to using Galaxy Forge, but I understand how to use nearly all the features now, EXCEPT for the Selection Toolkit. What I want to do is be able to manage how many resource asteroids are available for mining on each planet and in uncolonizable spaces. 

Thank you for the help!

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

You can't. That seems to be a feature they were going to add but never quite finished. Just like the triggers.

The only way to change the resource asteroids is to change the planets themselves with a mod.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you for the quick reply. So under the current system resources are just randomly generated based on planet, and you can change the number of resources with a mod?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Wenzel745, reply 2
Thank you for the quick reply. So under the current system resources are just randomly generated based on planet, and you can change the number of resources with a mod?
End of Wenzel745's quote

That is correct.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

What is the mod I should be looking for?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Wenzel745, reply 5
What is the mod I should be looking for?
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I should be more clear. You can't get a mod to let you change the amount of resource asteroids in galaxy forge (at least easily). Rather mods can say, set it so all volcanic planets have 4 metal extractors, every single time. Or only two. Or have between 2 and 6. Its the planet type that determines the resource asteroid, the map just says where the planet is, it has no control over the resource asteroids.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Do you know of any third party software that would be capable of editing these features in a map?

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Wenzel745, reply 7
Do you know of any third party software that would be capable of editing these features in a map?
End of Wenzel745's quote

No, its completely impossible to do it via a map. The game simply does not look at the map file to determine resource asteroids. It looks at the planet file. That's why you have to get/make a mod that changes planets, not maps. Its simply not programmed to do that at the moment. All you can really do is ask Stardock and hope they update the game to allow you to do this, which it seems they wanted to do at some point.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

So at this point does the "Selection Toolkit" have any purpose?

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

It may in the future if player interest in and support for the game stays high.  Asteroid presets, online map sharing and map triggers were all originally part of the concept.

Many changes to Diplomacy happened over a two year period including some huge bug fixes and engine and graphics improvements at the end of that time--when you would have least expected it.

The devs haven't shared how far they got towards developing resource asteroids, triggers and map sharing but if they made enough progress it's conceivable they may be inclined to add it in the future.

Sins has had a history of incremental but long-term changes.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

If by any means if they do come out with one let me know, cause that is basically one of the things I am looking for.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting casper_unfriendly, reply 11
If by any means if they do come out with one let me know, cause that is basically one of the things I am looking for.
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I heard someone was actually able to use galaxy forge to do this but I haven't tried it myself.