If you listen what he says in the video, at 1:18:48 he says "on the Thursday it will spin up and be deployed into orbit". He then proceeds to talk about how the new "contact" will appear in the completed space port, which allows you to colonize the next system.
Yes, I guess the beta. Arf had said multiple times it was coming this year.
I think saying Frontier are not being honest about it is not an accurate portrayal of the situation. When things are in flux timelines are estimates at best, and it was brought up during the preamble in the interview about colonization that there are many unforeseen factors in regards to how things work for each feature in regards to the player base finding exploits etc.. that affect other things. What I took from it was that the work needed to get PPV2 settled had eaten into the colonization development schedule and thus pushed it a bit back. I also imagine that trying to balance the scope for players and development resources is something that's only going to be revealed as part of the beta process, which I hope and would expect to be a bit more thorough than Odyssey's alpha period.
Yes I got that, but there seem to be a lot of people assuming the theoretical fastest as standard, when we don't at all know yet what it takes and if completion within a single period is possible or intended.
I reckon a T9 and an FC would probs do the job.
I wonder how the owner of this system would behave if an enemy force took it away from him.
Why can't you start colonising out from Colonia? It's fairly settled now.
Frontier themselves do explicitly mention a beta (which is very interesting, given we've all said quite vocally that expansions like this need a beta, so hurrah!)
If Frontier plan to charge money for this, they better be upfront about it, and pronto.
As long as that mark isn't a giant, ahem, rude picture.
Because they say so and might make it a rule. It sounded like, at least for the near future, Frontier want the bubble to expand, and nothing else.
Which looks silly, when Colonia itself was a player colonisation effort - the clue is in the name...
... except Colonia is already functionally limited in a number of ways, and "you can't colonise out from a colony, because it's resource-limited" is a reasonable thing to have in a space opera lore...
Well you got to roll with it I guess.... 99% of the time the answer to the "why can't I...." question is: Because Frontier made it a rule. That rule might get revised later on, but it looks like they have some kind of a vision how they want expansion of human space to start. And that's close to the bubble, it seems.
