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I rely a lot on asteroids for orbital refueling, but with 200+ tracked asteroids things are getting a bit unmanageable. Even at lower numbers, finding out which asteroid is going to enter the SOI of a planet can be a right bother because it will only show the SOI-change icon of the asteroid that is currently selected. The only method I have found is to click each asteroid, one by one, and using Eyeball Mk-1 to spy for a SOI change icon on the map.

What I'd really like is a mod that just gives me a simple list of tracked asteroids that are going to hit a SOI change in the upcoming months or so (or marks them some way in the tracking station). Over the years I've done many increasingly imaginative google searches to look for a mod that could do that, without luck. Does anyone know of a mod that can do this?

Failing that, how do you kerbonauts handle this yourself? Do you just untrack any asteroid that doesn't hit a SOI change in its upcoming orbit to keep the numbers down? Have you trained your muscle memory and eyes to hotkey through hundreds of asteroids in 3 minutes flat? Is there some config trick to show SOI changes of asteroids in the tracking station when they are not actively selected? Any pro tips are welcome. To be clear, I am specifically NOT looking to change asteroid generation, cheat orbits and encounters, or anything like that. Just a better way to manage large numbers of stock asteroids on Kerbol orbits.

 

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I don't really use asteroids, but I will try my best to give some advice.

Pick a few asteroids for each planet that you visit. You can use those for emergency refueling stations. Maybe track only the biggest ones, or the ones with the highest ore content. I can't think of anything else. Maybe just divide the number you have by two.

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3 minutes ago, BekfastDerp13 said:

I don't really use asteroids, but I will try my best to give some advice.

Pick a few asteroids for each planet that you visit. You can use those for emergency refueling stations. Maybe track only the biggest ones, or the ones with the highest ore content. I can't think of anything else. Maybe just divide the number you have by two.

I visit all planets :) Of course I don't need to bring any roids in orbit of Dres as it provides its own supply. I currently mine Ike but having a few E class asteroids in orbit of Duna would be much more convenient. Mining Gilly is dirt cheap but its orbit is cumbersome and besides, with Eve's atmosphere getting an asteroid in orbit should be easy so why not hehe. I definitely want a stash around Moho. The problem with  tracking only a few is that most will never have an encounter, you have to track a lot of them to find one that does.

The above screenshot is 90% E class, with a handful of D class and comets thrown in, I find A-C class really aren't worth chasing down for mining purposes so I never track those.

 

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