There should be some colonizable planets between Sol and the Asteroid base "just" 1,000 LY from it on the Colonia Highway.
source: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Colonia_Connection_Highway
Colonisation - new feature, and I love it!
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There should be some colonizable planets between Sol and the Asteroid base "just" 1,000 LY from it on the Colonia Highway.
source: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Colonia_Connection_Highway
Too early to make any definitive statements. Let's wait for the devs to tell us how the feature works.
It's just my prediction. I hope they do more with it and I'm wrong. =)
lol Yep!As the latest Galnet News Digest video puts it succinctly: "We build the bubble so they don't have to."
I suspect there will be some basic customization available, either as rewards or through the ARX store, but general layouts i think will pull from the existing set. Mainly custom decals and colour schemes on your bases.
No they didn't say that exactly, they said a colonised system can only be so far from an existing system, but one thing they specifically said is that you could "chain" colonised systems, I assume like the Colonia Highway, to reach systems far away from the bubble, so it's likely to be a distance based on the next nearest occupied system, whether it be an existing one or a player colonised one, and I am assuming the distance will probably be 500ly to fit with the already established jump range of FC's. Although nothing has actually been said about the distance yet it seems a sensible choice since that's the distance used on the Colonia Highway as well.
Because they said that on the live stream? I dunno, that might be a clue!
It is really too early to make any predictions at all. I bet FDev is still in brain-storming mode themselves over this.
I think what is "sensible" is really very much open to interpretation, and what goal or vision stands behind the development. Personally, I'd rather hope it is not conceived to enable reaching any point in the galaxy within a human lifespan, as much as it was calculated as being impossible to explore any major portion of it in that time. Depending on how long such an expansion is projected to take until the next one out can begin, the range per jump of a fleet carrier might be quite a lot already. I also do not see how this number should have any logical connection to the new project.
Tl;dr, the concept sounds cool but I wouldn't like to lose the sense of being "far out" as an explorer, having to think that wherever you reach, the wagon treck follows on your heels.
I am basing it on the distance apart of the Colonia Highway stations, I mean they could have made them 1000ly apart, or 250ly apart, but they didn't, it's the same as a Fleet Carrier jump range.
I think this is pretty much guaranteed. Its FDEV after all
I am not sure, last changes definitely are going to shorten time of gameloops or/and grind.
I preffer to be optimistic
That is what concerned me a lot, because if I need to start colonisation chain from the buuble reach systems like 500 Ly away it is still more than 70 systems to colonise "my place" - the Arcadia
And I do it myself with eventually few friends Now, just I wait for more details, becasue "reachable systems" can mean a lot of things.I am not sure what do you mean, but I remember from previous post than it is possible something is missing in translation. All activities you mentioned we can do as a individual pilots or in groups. But the main progress is measured by joint activities. I am pretty sure the idea of colonisation is the same. They mentioned in Frontier Unlocked that it will be possible alone and in groups. I hope for well balanced activity, because I like playing in cooperation with friends, but not in very, very large groups of random peoples.
I see this different way. Frontier delivers stuff with full effort and as a complete ideas, but because it is a really big game, it needs compromises sometimes, what is totally fine for me. I think just players are dreamers, and don't think rationally, what is totally understandable of course. So half done or all done depends just of point of view.
That's true, but from my point of view: if I want to build an explorer mini-bubble in Trojan Belt (what I started few months ago with fleet carriers) this cause two possibly situations.
With colonisation range like 500 Ly, I need to colonise 40 systems from SagA* to reach my destination.
With colonisation range like 5000 Ly - only 4 systems between
So, big range means less haibtated systems intensity.
Second variable is price/time effort.
Big effort - colonisation is slower
Low effort - colonisation is faster
So depends of a reason it can be managed very different.
In my humble opinion if colonisation is a gear for explorers and more "Buuble oriented" players the interesting option would be make big colnisation range and pretty big effort/price. Because I think (I am sure Frontier know what is the best, because they have real data and I can only try to interpolate what I see), in the Bubble we have more group/squadron activity, so it should balanced effort and how fast progress of colonisation is around the Bubble/Colonia etc. and the same way it would be still posiible for smaller groups, or individual players to colonise some favourite systems, makes distant homes etc.
Finger crossed. This year shows definitely that Frontier really plays its own game, but not as individual oriented for one subject player, but as a "hive mind"
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I don't see a problem....
Creating colonies is likely to be an expensive move, they might like some done during this century - I remember the days when I first started playing when any damage to the ship could entirely wipe out the profit from a mission, it wasn't the best fun idea.
But, at least, the colonies will have that player driven economy so few here want.
Well we know it's been in development since beginning of year at least
Frontier have always gone after realism in Elite (within gaming boundaries of course). The distance for a system to have interactions, missions etc is currently about 20 light years, systems more far away are practically dead, despite being attractive to visit (or now create).
In reality, it would probably be prohibitively difficult to move further from the range of simple ships. Not impossible, but difficult and costly. That should be reflected in game, so that expansion resembles a regular expansion. Think how cities and countries have always expanded, it is mostly around the borders and rarely with far away colonies.
Anyway, great news for the game. What seasoned players need in Elite, beyond things that increase immersion in the world, are new long-term goals. I mean, when you've done thousands of missions, you have a carrier, engineered ships, credits, you have explored a lot, played the Bgs, explored the wonderful flying and fighting model etc.. now new things to go after, great!
In reality, it would probably be prohibitively difficult to move further from the range of simple ships. Not impossible, but difficult and costly. That should be reflected in game, so that expansion resembles a regular expansion. Think how cities and countries have always expanded, it is mostly around the borders and rarely with far away colonies.
Anyway, great news for the game. What seasoned players need in Elite, beyond things that increase immersion in the world, are new long-term goals. I mean, when you've done thousands of missions, you have a carrier, engineered ships, credits, you have explored a lot, played the Bgs, explored the wonderful flying and fighting model etc.. now new things to go after, great!
I understood that, but still see these two things as quite disjoint. One is a string of support stations catering to long-distance travellers, similar to rest stations along an interstate motorway. The other is more akin to projecting the entire country's power towards territorial expansion, even if scaled to the capabilities of a group or even individual for the purpose of a simulation game. I'd rather see it being limited to taking the nearest viable place first, maybe allowing to choose from a half-sphere pointing outwards, i.e. only exempt having to fill every empty spot inside the bubble first. Although these could be picked, as well.
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