Inhabited/ colonized systems should open systems adjacent to them

[Staarlord]

Okay there appears to be a huge issue.
Systems marked "Inhabited" are not opening up systems just 2ly away from them, making it impossible to find and claim a system, since they are all spoken for now.

My guess? Is that it refreshes every server tick, which will spawn bulk claims instead of dynamically allowing trickling in claims and putting off people entire weeks at a time. Of course, by that time? People who colonized during round one will be ready for their second claims, making it even more saturated.

So, apparently I was misunderstanding the range thing? I started in Achenar, the region I wanted to colonize but none of the colonization contacts would speak to me so I went to Ngurii, And I could talk to the colonization contact there... But it won't let me colonize literally anything that's outside of Ngurri. I thought the system candidate just needed to be buy another human settlement? But it looks like it needs to be near another major port that offers the services. So, what would be nice to eventually find, is some sort of list of colonization specialists that are actively participating.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

My guess is these will update after the tick. When a system has its first station complete, it remains in a limited operational state until the next server tick, so i guess you can only then expand beyond once the tick has happened, so take a look now, or when the servers are back online... should be soon if not already.

 

[Staarlord]

Thanks!
No, I was under a couple misunderstandings. I'm still confused about one of them, however.

First, I ended my evening, the night before the beta, in Achenar. That was the region I wanted to colonize. Come the beta? None of those colonization contacts were not participating in the beta and/ or were for other reasons greyed out. I had gone to all the star ports within Achenar. So? Concluded there must be specific participating specialists, much like how there were only a couple carrier administration ports during carrier release. Fine. So, where to find this list? Rather than search every system, I resorted to Dr. Google and Youtube. Found Ricardo went to Ngurii. Sure enough? It worked!

Went to Ngurii and found that the only systems available were in its immediate vicinity, which is not where I wanted to colonize. I figured this to be another beta limitation; only this port (or specific ports) is participating and could be colonized. Since I had already gone to all these systems I had bookmarked and gauged which ones were physically within 10ly away from another settled system, decided that the one I wanted second-most I had forgotten to FSS. Went over there, FSS'd and decided to start caching these materials, proactively. Stopped at the settled system closest to it and sure enough? There was an active specialist at this tiny little dock but yet? Not in Achenar!

So, needless to say? I finally found home lol
I'm still confused about the Achenar situation however.

 

[Ozric]

So, needless to say? I finally found home lol
I'm still confused about the Achenar situation however.

It's probably because Achenar is a permit locked system and off limits from Colonisation, and so you also can't expand from it either.

There are release notes as well to maybe help you understand how the system is intended to work.