CollectorDeployer

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Deploy 40 orbital collectors on a gas giant with one click

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Overview

On a gas giant, a Deploy Orbital Collectors button appears to the left of the vanilla "Manual Collecting Resources on Gas Giant" button.
One click builds 40 orbital collectors evenly spaced on the equator, all snapped to the building grid.
- The equator of a gas giant has 400 grid points; a collector is placed on every 10th one.
- 40 is the maximum the vanilla spacing rule allows on the equator.
- Collectors are finished instantly; you don't need to fly around the planet.
Collectors already on the right grid points are kept as they are. Off-grid collectors (and unfinished ones) are removed and rebuilt; they and the items stored in them go back to your inventory.
Clicking again once all 40 are in place does nothing.
Building and removal use the game's own functions, the same ones used for normal construction and dismantling.

Not enough orbital collectors: you need 40 minus the ones kept, counting both your inventory and the collectors that will be removed. If you don't have enough, a tip is shown and nothing changes.
More than 40 collectors on the planet (for example, another mod lifted the limit): nothing is deployed.
The planet can't power collectors: same check as placing one by hand.

Normally the deployment happens right away, without any confirmation.
Only if your inventory can't hold everything the removal returns, a dialog lists the items that would be dropped and asks whether to continue.

The button and messages are in Chinese when the game language is Chinese, and in English otherwise.

中文说明

气态巨星上一键部署 40 个轨道采集器

关键字：一键部署、一键建造

在气态巨星上，原版"手动开采气态巨星物质"按钮左侧会出现一键部署轨道采集器按钮。
点一下即在赤道上按格点均匀建造 40 个轨道采集器。
- 气态巨星赤道一圈共 400 个格点，每 10 格放一个。
- 40 个是原版间距规则下赤道能放下的上限。
- 立即完工，不需要绕着星球飞一圈。
已经在正确格点上的采集器原样保留；不在格点上的（以及未完工的）会被拆除重建，采集器和其中储存的物品返还背包。
40 个都已就位时再点不会有任何改动。
建造和拆除都调用游戏自身的函数，与正常建造、拆除的流程一致。