Elite Dangerous | Trailblazers coming 26th February
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Don't worry. BGS is broken anyway lol
I don't understand what this has to do with the BGS...
P.S. I'm the kind of person who thinks manipulating BGS is stupid.
werent costs mentioned in last stream? i vaguely remeber "cheaper than a carrier" being mentioned
what isnt lol
I think one of FDev’s goals is to tie colonized systems firmly into the BGS, so these systems would have to be in jump range of an average ship. Although, come to think of it, I don't know if and how the BGS works for those lonesome colonies in some of the faraway nebulae, for example.
Technically, exactly the same as it works anywhere else, it's just that some of the rules have different consequences when there are no other inhabited systems for thousands of LY.
The main visible problem is that the mission selection in an isolated system can be fairly poor, since many mission types have a "nearby but not the same system" restriction. You only need a pair of systems to fix that, for the most part. Non-mission play is almost entirely unaffected by how isolated the system is (trade obviously works better if you have somewhere to trade with, but the distance limit on that is your patience rather than anything intrinsic to the simulation).
There are various things involving deliberate faction manipulation which are a bit more restrictive, but if you care about those you'll set up your colonies to support them, and if you don't care you won't notice that you've "broken" them.
There are a lot of things which won't happen - and therefore might end up a bit boring - in a system with no/minimal player input. For example, you're not going to get a Boom/War state happening, so you won't get megaship scenarios, and your mining prices will be fairly poor. But there are thousands of well-connected systems in the bubble where that happens - it's only extremely indirectly a consequence of isolation; conversely if you set up a distant colony and somehow get hundreds of players round it, that'll be absolutely fine.
There was an immediate caveat in regards to the jump range limit. I agree that I would like it to be greater as well, though my current assumption is that in this early stage maybe it will keep things more manageable to begin with.
I've never looked at the galactic map and been able to see any pattern in how populated systems spread out. Your pattern matching skills must be unmatched.
Interesting that it's releasing on a Wednesday, might be a good thing because they can adjust issues during the weekly server maintenance. Wonder how the servers are going to hold up with increased player count, fleet carrier jumps, etc.
hmm, didn't consider that admittedly.. though I think that too could be designed around, for example by having 'deeper' BGS only kick in once there is a certain amount of colonized systems within a certain space - so for example if you make a mini-bubble out there, then stuff like the simulated politics etc kick in
Simpler BGS stuff would still make sense, an outpost out in the dark would in theory attract travellers for a stop, so stuff happening around that spot would still be immersive
Sorry I think I wasn't clear in my initial comment
of course the populated systems aren't all that visible in the ingame map (unless you specifically switch to the right mode of course), but inevitably while playing you'll encounter those 'chains' of player colonized systems, which I feel like could be a bit immersion breaking, or at least odd - is what I meant
How exciting! Kudos FDev.
Now pls lets not have to do a grind for massive amounts of mats to build each station. There's a staggering number of systems available and it would be great for one person with a carrier to solo build up a system without burning out, collapsing and being hospitalized before the build timeline expires. And then pls quickly increase the 10 LY limit.
Now pls lets not have to do a grind for massive amounts of mats to build each station. There's a staggering number of systems available and it would be great for one person with a carrier to solo build up a system without burning out, collapsing and being hospitalized before the build timeline expires. And then pls quickly increase the 10 LY limit.
In Frontier’s defense (and I have a good few things I could, and have, criticize[d]), they have been fairly transparent about what this was going to be ahead of the feature’s release.and we'll also see colonization in Beta.
I would rather keep an eye on how much it sees itself supported past this initial launch. They’ve yet to overcome that particular shortcoming with Elite, it seems. (Judging by the aforementioned Powerplay 2, although they stuck by the Thargoid war a bit more actively now that I look back at it - I certainly wouldn’t have expected it to be rebalanced in a major way when it was already well on its way out)
You don't buy the carrier, I mean asking questions is ok, but these have already been answered, the carrier appears when you start building the starbase and goes when you finish, you never own it, it's just a support asset for the construction process.
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"Trailblazers" is a funny name when you only can build your house on a vacant lot in your neighbourhood