You have more faith in the courage of fdev to do that than me
Seems more like a 'we're done with development - have fun' parting gesture (which is good - more player agency / less fdev oversight is probably the right direction)
Colonisation - new feature, and I love it!
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Seems more like a 'we're done with development - have fun' parting gesture (which is good - more player agency / less fdev oversight is probably the right direction)
From the moment this is enabled, nobody needs or cares for a why other than "because I can."
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All joking aside, I wonder on the viability of 'Colonising' a system purely with Odyssey's Settlements?
Not wasting all the AX content and giving the AX fans something to do in this new future seems entirely reasonable. There's plenty of ways to set it up so that the only systems which get depopulated are the ones no-one really cared about anyway.You have more faith in the courage of fdev to do that than me
Oh, they've been wanting things to need less manual intervention since maybe Powerplay v1 - and between Powerplay v2 and Colonisation, we might really be at the end of CGs - but I doubt this is the end of development just yet.
Roughly 22000 LY. Assuming that you can colonise systems (or have people happen to colonise them for you) sufficiently rapidly, your absolute limit on speed is only being able to exploit systems in range of an existing Fortified/Stronghold system, and only being able to promote systems by one level a week, which gives you a 10LY/week pace should you be able to find an optimal straight-line route.
See you there in 50 years, I guess.
Oh, of course, on the individual level, as is absolutely right. But Frontier has the wider game balance and 'ecosystem' to consider - a bubble of 80,000 systems is actively worse for many gameplay types than a bubble of 20,000 systems, for example.
They've said that the first asset in a system needs to be an orbital station, I believe, but after that there's a lot more choice.
1. Be easier to 'chain build' a set of Imperial BGS Faction controlled systems out to the hub though, that'd cut it down to what, 40 or 20 Colonies? Well within the realms of a average size player group if we're going to be able to conduct this gameplay as single commanders.
2. If thats the case, I hope 'Outposts' are counted for that purpose.
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Arthur said "and - we're not done yet!" on the live stream. I don't think this is the end of the roadYou have more faith in the courage of fdev to do that than me
Seems more like a 'we're done with development - have fun' parting gesture (which is good - more player agency / less fdev oversight is probably the right direction)
Has anyone played the TTRPG called "2300AD" (Formerly "Traveller: 2300AD")? The "arms" of national colonisation out from Sol/Terra sound very similar to this.
We will see - but fdev have removed stuff before.
Operation IDA had a large player group repairing stations and that was just removed. Dredger fans had to be around for a sighting. Anyone wanting to scan a Thargoid Matrix site is out of luck. I can see them going back to vanilla AX stuff in the nebula once the story wraps - maybe with a weekly AX CG like Legacy has
100 Titans appearWe will see - but fdev have removed stuff before.
Operation IDA had a large player group repairing stations and that was just removed. Dredger fans had to be around for a sighting. Anyone wanting to scan a Thargoid Matrix site is out of luck. I can see them going back to vanilla AX stuff in the nebula once the story wraps - maybe with a weekly AX CG like Legacy has
And Cough UA Bombing Cough CoughWe will see - but fdev have removed stuff before.
Operation IDA had a large player group repairing stations and that was just removed. Dredger fans had to be around for a sighting. Anyone wanting to scan a Thargoid Matrix site is out of luck. I can see them going back to vanilla AX stuff in the nebula once the story wraps - maybe with a weekly AX CG like Legacy has
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To me it feels more like PP2.0 is going to be the invasion - some weirdo Kale Kultist invades your system. And all player driven Time will tell, I'll be happy either way 
Time will tell, I'll be happy either way Although since PP2 is Goid Engine based, it would snugly fit with random incursions like barbarians in Civ- like an extra random Power.To me it feels more like PP2.0 is going to be the invasion - some weirdo Kale Kultist invades your system. And all player driven
If you just wanted to get BGS factions out there rather than Powers, then yes, that would probably be quicker (and harder to stop by just sneezing and undermining that Power system with a 15000LY distance penalty too...)
But, for an example:
Establish a new habitated systemneeds 200 hrs of gameplay
Making this place valuable for BGS/Powerplay 2000 hrs more
It totally could work like that, and if you add pretty far distance you can easily do it as a part of explorers and squadrons/BGS/PowerPlay gameplay.
First colonisation station can be a part of colonisation megaship, what you can just buy, and then you can choose to make next part of the chain, or put an effort to develop this particular place. Zac said it will be possible for one player as well as for a bunch of players. So this just abount balance I think.
The other factor....what about FC updates at the same time?
You could make for some interesting situations if you could pledge your FC and have it as a weak proxy PP stronghold....