Having had chance to mess with stuff for a while, I've found myself disappointed that stellar reflectors don't have any effect on extreme temperatures.
I was rather hoping they would mitigate half of the condition to get the hazard effectively moved a single step closer to optimal, in the same way the lesser temperatures are.
But nope. Nothing at all.
This also creates a contradictory situation where a habitable planet can also have an extreme temperature, which is not possible in the base game since they are mutually exclusive conditions.
(Well technically, habitable can't exist in extreme temps and temperature is generated first so it never has to care...)
The reflectors could be made to avoid this. Leave the original condition in place to prevent chain terraforming into uniformity, and ditch the hazard from the condition. Same as for hot/cold.
But add in an extra bit that puts half the hazard back to provide the 'corrected' condition.
The planet still has an extreme temperature, but the reflectors have mitigated that so 'technically' no rules are being broken.
In essence reflectors always provide -25% hazard for temperature. No more. No less.
I really like this approach to terraforming as well.
It prevents everything always being taken to the same endpoint, and puts additional constraints on what is possible in a believable manner.
And sets the possible limits based on the original conditions of the planet rather than it's current condition.
So good.
I do still think Deserts and Arids are super not the same though.
Is there any way to increase a Mining Stations output? Thought there might be some was to improve the ore/rare ore. No worries if not, mainly built it to supply water to other planets.
Also, any way to add stable points for systems without them? That'd be really handy.
The mining item works on stations.
And there's a mod setting that changes the yield of mining stations based on how many asteroid fields there are in the system, which is p. nice.
Don't think it works retroactively though.
Stable points can be added even in vanilla.
Pay a visit to the star and you'll get some hints.